South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 04 - Acknowledgment And Proof Of Instruments
Section 18-4-24 - Clerk's certificate to accompany proof or acknowledgment taken by magistrate.

18-4-24. Clerk's certificate to accompany proof or acknowledgment taken by magistrate.
The certificate of proof or acknowledgment, if made before a magistrate, if used in any county other than that in which the magistrate resides, shall be accompanied by a certificate under the hand and seal of the clerk of courts, setting forth that such magistrate at the time of taking was authorized to take such proof or acknowledgment, and that the clerk is acquainted with the magistrate's handwriting and believes that the signature to the original certificate is genuine.

Source: SDC 1939, §51.1615(6); SL 1974, ch 153, §34; SL 1998, ch 121, §1.

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 18 - Oaths and Acknowledgments

Chapter 04 - Acknowledgment And Proof Of Instruments

Section 18-4-1 - Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment within state.

Section 18-4-2 - Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment within circuit, county, or municipality.

Section 18-4-3 - Indian agents authorized to take acknowledgment or proof in Indian country--Recording of certificate of appointment.

Section 18-4-6 - Acknowledgment before commissioned officer of armed forces--Place of execution need not be shown.

Section 18-4-7 - Authentication of military certificate not required--Form of certificate attached.

Section 18-4-8 - Acknowledgments taken by military officers before 1943.

Section 18-4-9 - Uniformity of interpretation of military provisions.

Section 18-4-10 - Identity of person making acknowledgment to be known or proved to officer.

Section 18-4-11 - Certificate of officer taking acknowledgment to be attached.

Section 18-4-12 - Form of general certificate of acknowledgment.

Section 18-4-13 - Form of certificate of corporate acknowledgment.

Section 18-4-14 - Form of certificate of acknowledgment by attorney.

Section 18-4-15 - Form of certificate of acknowledgment by deputy sheriff.

Section 18-4-16 - Fees chargeable for acknowledgments--Violation as petty offense.

Section 18-4-17 - Means of proving instrument not acknowledged.

Section 18-4-18 - Proof of instrument by subscribing witness.

Section 18-4-19 - Circumstances permitting proof of instrument by handwriting.

Section 18-4-20 - Facts to be established for proof by handwriting.

Section 18-4-21 - Powers of officers authorized to take proof of instruments.

Section 18-4-22 - Contents of certificate of officer taking proof of instrument.

Section 18-4-23 - Authentication of certificates of acknowledgment or proof.

Section 18-4-24 - Clerk's certificate to accompany proof or acknowledgment taken by magistrate.

Section 18-4-25 - False certification of acknowledgment or proof as forgery.

Section 18-4-26 - Action in circuit court to prove instrument defectively certified--Judgment entitles instrument to record.

Section 18-4-27 - Prior instruments governed by prior law.

Section 18-4-28 - Validity of conveyances acknowledged or proved under prior law.

Section 18-4-29 - Form--Certificate of acknowledgement--Video communication technology.