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Code · South Dakota · Title 44 · Chapter 44-10

44-10-3. Real owner cannot defeat pledge of property transferred to apparent owner for the purpose of pledge.

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One who has allowed another to assume the apparent ownership of property for the purpose of making any transfer of it cannot set up his own title to defeat a pledge of the property made by the other to a pledgee who received the property in good faith in the ordinary course of business and for value.
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