2011 South Dakota Code
Title 21 JUDICIAL REMEDIES
Chapter 36. Actions For Escheat Of Property
§21-36-26 Judgment for claimant to escheated property--Restoration of property--Interest not included in judgment.


SD Codified L § 21-36-26 (through 2011) What's This?

21-36-26. Judgment for claimant to escheated property--Restoration of property--Interest not included in judgment. If judgment shall be awarded the claimant, the court must order the property if not sold, to be delivered to him by the receiver, administrator, or the commissioner of school and public lands, or if it has been sold and the proceeds paid into the state treasury as a part of the school fund, the Legislature shall provide for the payment of the same. No judgment shall be rendered in favor of such person for a sum in excess of the principal received into the school fund, exclusive of interest, rents, and profits; it being the intent of this section that any interest or profits derived from said principal shall be retained in said school fund as compensation for the care and preservation of said property.

Source: SL 1909, ch 104, § 10; RC 1919, § 3058; SL 1929, ch 119, § 2; Supreme Court Rule 604, 1939; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.4208.

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