Section 18-4-18 - Proof of instrument by subscribing witness. - South Dakota Statutes

18-4-18. Proof of instrument by subscribing witness. If proof of the execution of an instrument is made by a subscribing witness, such witness must be personally known to the officer taking the proof to be the person whose name is subscribed to the instrument as a witness or must be proved to be such by the oath of a credible witness. The subscribing witness must prove that the person whose name is subscribed to the instrument as a party is the person described in it and that such person executed it and that the witness subscribed his name thereto as a witness.

Source: CivC 1877, § 662; CL 1887, § 3284; RCivC 1903, § 977; RC 1919, § 583; SDC 1939, § 51.1611.