California Statutes
§ 1864. — 1864. (Enacted 1872.)
California § 1864.
JurisdictionCalifornia
Code CCPCode of Civil Procedure - CCP
Title1.
Part 4.TITLE 1. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE
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Cal. Code of Civil Procedure - CCP Code § 1864. (2026).
Text
When the terms of an agreement have been intended in a different sense by the different parties to it, that sense is to prevail against either party in which he supposed the other understood it, and when different constructions of a provision are otherwise equally proper, that is to be taken which is most favorable to the party in whose favor the provision was made.
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Legislative History
Enacted 1872.
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