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2022 California Code
Civil Code - CIV
DIVISION 3 - OBLIGATIONS
PART 2 - CONTRACTS
TITLE 3 - INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS
Section 1649.

Universal Citation:
CA Civ Code § 1649 (2022)
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1649. 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.

(Enacted 1872.)

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