South Dakota § 49-43-21 - Warehouseman prohibited from denying title of receipt holder.

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§ 49-43-21. Warehouseman prohibited from denying title of receipt holder.

No person doing a grain warehouse business having issued a receipt for the storage of grain as in this chapter provided, may thereafter be permitted to deny that the grain represented by the receipt is the property of the person to whom such receipt was issued or his assigns. Such receipts shall be considered so far as the duties, liabilities, and obligations of such warehouseman are concerned, conclusive evidence of the fact that the person to whom the receipt was issued, or his assigns, is the owner of such grain and is the person entitled to make surrender of such receipt and receive the grain thereby promised to be delivered.

Source: SDC 1939, § 60.0318; SL 1985, ch 376, § 41.

Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 49-43-21 ("Warehouseman prohibited from denying title of receipt holder.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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