43-17-10. Title to land by avulsion--Reclamation by original owner of part of land carried away.
If a river or stream, navigable or not navigable, carries away by sudden violence a considerable and distinguishable part of a bank and bears it to the opposite bank or to another part of the same bank, the owner of the part carried away may reclaim it within a year after the owner of the land to which it has been united takes possession thereof.
Source: CivC 1877, §585; CL 1887, §3208; RCivC 1903, §901; RC 1919, §499; SDC 1939, §51.1105.