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California Civil Code

§ 1649

CIV § 1649Div. 3 · Title 3 · Part 2
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.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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