20-8-1. Obligation to restore thing obtained without consent or by unlawful exaction.One who obtains a thing without the consent of its owner, or by a consent afterwards rescinded, or by an unlawful exaction which the owner could not at the time prudently refuse, must restore it to the person from whom it was thus obtained, unless he has acquired a title thereto superior to that of such other person, or unless the transaction was corrupt and unlawful on both sides. Source: CivC 1877, §977; CL 1887, §3601; RCivC 1903, §1295; RC 1919, §799; SDC 1939, §47.0305.
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