Unrecorded instrument showing title to real property--Ownership--Passing with title

Instruments essential to the title of real property and which are not kept in a public office as a record pursuant to law, belong to the person in whom, for the time being, such title may be vested, and pass with the title. Source: CivC 1877, § 579; CL 1887, § 3202; RCivC 1903, § 895; RC 1919, § 493; SDC 1939, § 51.0811.