21-45-18. Road or street set aside before partition or sale.Before making partition or sale, the referees may, whenever it will be for the advantage of those interested, set apart a portion of the property for a way, road, or street, and the portion so set apart shall not be assigned to any of the parties or sold, but shall remain an open and public way, road, or street, unless the referees shall set the same apart as a private way for the use of the parties interested, or some of them, their heirs, or assigns, in which case it shall remain such private way. Source: CCivP 1877, §560; CL 1887, §5374; RCCivP 1903, §599; RC 1919, §2810; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §37.1413.
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