43-1-7. Law governing personal property.
If there is no law to the contrary in the place where personal property is situated, it is deemed to follow the person of its owner and is governed by the law of his domicile.
Source: CivC 1877, §359; CL 1887, §2875; RCivC 1903, §382; RC 1919, §470; SDC 1939, §51.0801.