South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 25 - Deeds And Conveyances
Section 43-25-16 - Condition precedent in grant of real property--Performance necessary to pass estate.

43-25-16. Condition precedent in grant of real property--Performance necessary to pass estate.
An instrument purporting to be a grant of real property, to take effect upon condition precedent, passes the estate upon the performance of the condition.

Source: CivC 1877, §633, subdiv 3; CL 1887, §3254, subdiv 3; RCivC 1903, §947, subdiv 3; RC 1919, §555 (3); SDC 1939, §51.1414 (3).

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 43 - Property

Chapter 25 - Deeds And Conveyances

Section 43-25-1 - Requisites for transfer of certain estates.

Section 43-25-2 - Conveyance of interest in property by owner out of possession.

Section 43-25-3 - Conclusiveness of grant of estate in real property--Exception.

Section 43-25-4 - Words of inheritance or succession not required to transfer fee in real property.

Section 43-25-5 - Warranty deed--Standard form.

Section 43-25-6 - Implied covenants and warranties in deed.

Section 43-25-7 - Quitclaim deed--Standard form.

Section 43-25-8 - Right, title, and interest conveyed by quitclaim deed--After-acquired title.

Section 43-25-9 - Other forms of deeds unaffected by standard forms of warranty and quitclaim deeds.

Section 43-25-10 - Use of word "grant" in conveyance--Implied covenants, action to enforce.

Section 43-25-11 - Use of words "remise," "release," or "quitclaim" in conveyance--Implied covenants.

Section 43-25-12 - Prior unrecorded conveyance--Rights of purchaser in good faith.

Section 43-25-13 - Lineal and collateral warranties abolished--Exception.

Section 43-25-14 - Heirs and devisees answerable for covenant or agreement with reference to land received by descent or devise.

Section 43-25-15 - Presumption as to passing of fee simple title--Exception.

Section 43-25-16 - Condition precedent in grant of real property--Performance necessary to pass estate.

Section 43-25-17 - Subsequently acquired title passes by operation of law.

Section 43-25-18 - Grant made on condition subsequent defeated by nonperformance of condition.

Section 43-25-18.1 - Action describing land and conditions of conveyance--Statement of changed conditions which make it impossible or impractical to hold lands for public purpose.

Section 43-25-18.2 - Commencement and prosecution of action--Limitation.

Section 43-25-18.3 - Hearing--Sale of lands and reinvestment in other lands on court finding allegations are true.

Section 43-25-18.4 - Title in fee simple free of conditions to purchaser of land.

Section 43-25-18.5 - Court authorized to place conditions on sale proceeds.

Section 43-25-18.6 - Inapplicability of provisions to severed mineral interests.

Section 43-25-19 - Encumbrances defined.

Section 43-25-20 - Corporate deeds and mortgages--Execution, assignment, and release by officers of corporation--Acknowledgment.

Section 43-25-21 - Corporate seal or acknowledgment as prima facie evidence of executing officer's authorization.

Section 43-25-22 - Mortgage or conveyance of real estate by unincorporated association--Adoption of resolution, notice--Execution of instrument.

Section 43-25-23 - Recording of proceedings authorizing sale or mortgage of real estate by unincorporated association.

Section 43-25-24 - Conveyances by unincorporated association prior to 1979 validated--Presumption as to legal capacity--Vested rights protected.

Section 43-25-25 - Grant not invalidated by absence of seal of grantor or his agent.

Section 43-25-26 - Recording of grant of estate in real property--Acknowledgment or proof by subscribing witness required.

Section 43-25-27 - Unrecorded instrument showing title to real property--Ownership--Passing with title.

Section 43-25-28 - Attornments of tenants unnecessary to grants of rents, reversions, or remainders.

Section 43-25-29 - Title passed by transfer of land bounded by highway.

Section 43-25-30 - Easements passed by transfer of real property to which they are attached.

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

Section 43-25-32 - Reservation of power to revoke or modify instrument affecting estate in real property--Subsequent grant revokes original instrument.

Section 43-25-33 - Execution of power to revoke or modify instrument affecting estate in real property.

Section 43-25-34 - Instrument other than will affecting estate in real property--Effect of fraud.

Section 43-25-35 - Fraud does not avoid instrument affecting estate in real property in favor of subsequent purchaser or encumbrancer with notice--Exception.

Section 43-25-36 - Rights of good faith purchaser or encumbrancer protected against fraud.