California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1864

CA Civ Pro Code § 1864 (2017)  

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.

(Enacted 1872.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018