43-25-27. Unrecorded instrument showing title to real property--Ownership--Passing with title.Instruments essential to the title of real property and which are not kept in a public office as a record pursuant to law, belong to the person in whom, for the time being, such title may be vested, and pass with the title. Source: CivC 1877, §579; CL 1887, §3202; RCivC 1903, §895; RC 1919, §493; SDC 1939, §51.0811.
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