18-4-12. Form of general certificate of acknowledgment.
The certificate of acknowledgment of an instrument unless it is otherwise in this chapter provided must be substantially in the following form:
Territory of ____ or State of ____
County of ____ ss
On this ____ day of ____, in the year ____, before me personally appeared ____, known to me (or proved to me on the oath of ____) to be the person who is described in, and who executed the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he (or they) executed the same.
Source: CivC 1877, §666, subdiv 1; CL 1887, §3288, subdiv 1; RCivC 1903, §981, subdiv 1; RC 1919, §587 (1); SDC 1939, §51.1615 (1).