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CALIFORNIA CODES
CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODEDivision 3 - OBLIGATIONSPart 2 - CONTRACTS
Title 3 - INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS
Section 1649 - Ambiguous or uncertain terms

Cal. Civ. Code § 1649

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Section 1649 - Ambiguous or uncertain terms

If the terms of a promise are in any respect ambiguous or uncertain, it must be interpreted in the sense in which the promisor believed, at the time of making it, that the promisee understood it.

Ca. Civ. Code § 1649

Enacted 1872.

  • Section 1648 - Contract extends to things parties intended to contract
  • Section 1650 - Particular clauses subordinate to general intent
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