S.D. Codified Laws § 43-2-14

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Conveyance to two or more grantees creating joint tenancy

Official statutory text

Any deed, transfer, or assignment of real or personal property to two or more grantees, including any deed in which a grantor is also a grantee, which, by the method of describing such grantees or by the language of the granting habendum clause therein evinces an intent to create a joint tenancy in grantees shall be held and construed to create such joint tenancy.

Source: SDC 1939, § 51.0212 as added by SL 1951, ch 255.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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