South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 34 - Accessions To Personal Property
Section 43-34-2 - Effect of uniting things of different owners--Inseparable without injury--Ownership--Duties of owner.

43-34-2. Effect of uniting things of different owners--Inseparable without injury--Ownership--Duties of owner.
When things belonging to different owners have been united so as to form a single thing and cannot be separated without injury, the whole belongs to the owner of the thing which forms the principal part, who must, however, reimburse the value of the residue to the other owner or surrender the whole to him.

Source: CivC 1877, §590; CL 1887, §3213; RCivC 1903, §906; RC 1919, §508; SDC 1939, §51.1201.

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Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 43 - Property

Chapter 34 - Accessions To Personal Property

Section 43-34-1 - Ownership of things--Extent--Products and accessions.

Section 43-34-2 - Effect of uniting things of different owners--Inseparable without injury--Ownership--Duties of owner.

Section 43-34-3 - Principal part of thing which has been united--Definition--Necessity for separation and return to original owner.

Section 43-34-4 - Uniting things of different owners--Absence of principal part--Value or bulk as determinable factor.

Section 43-34-5 - Use of materials of different owners to form a thing of new description--Inseparable without inconvenience--Common ownership.

Section 43-34-6 - Thing formed by admixture of materials of different owners without consent of some--Inseparable without inconvenience--Common ownership--Exception.