§ 43-25-31 Conveyances by owner for life or for years.

SD Codified L § 43-25-31 (2019) (N/A)
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43-25-31. Conveyances by owner for life or for years. A grant, made by the owner of an estate for life or years, purporting to transfer a greater estate than he could lawfully transfer, does not work a forfeiture of his estate, but passes to the grantee all the estate which the grantor could lawfully transfer.

Source: CivC 1877, § 630; CL 1887, § 3251; RCivC 1903, § 944; RC 1919, § 552; SDC 1939, § 51.1411.