53-7-3. Absolute and unqualified acceptance required--Qualified acceptance, new proposal. An acceptance must be absolute and unqualified or must include in itself an acceptance of that character which the proposer can separate from the rest and which will conclude the person accepting. A qualified acceptance is a new proposal.
Source: CivC 1877, § 896; CL 1887, § 3520; RCivC 1903, § 1214; RC 1919, § 829; SDC 1939, § 10.0320.