53-4-12. Provision that contract not avoided by errors in description--Right to rescind for fraud or mistake.A provision that errors of description shall not avoid a contract or shall be subject to compensation or both does not take away the right of rescission for fraud, nor for mistake, where such mistake is in a matter essential to the inducement of the contract and is not capable of exact and entire compensation. Source: CivC 1877, §966; CL 1887, §3590; RCivC 1903, §1284; RC 1919, §905; SDC 1939, §10.0803. 53-4-12. Provision that contract not avoided by errors in description--Right to rescind for fraud or mistake.A provision that errors of description shall not avoid a contract or shall be subject to compensation or both does not take away the right of rescission for fraud, nor for mistake, where such mistake is in a matter essential to the inducement of the contract and is not capable of exact and entire compensation. Source: CivC 1877, §966; CL 1887, §3590; RCivC 1903, §1284; RC 1919, §905; SDC 1939, §10.0803.
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