California Code of Civil Procedure TITLE 1 - OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE

• Section 1855.
  When any map which has been recorded in the office of the recorder of any county is injured, destroyed, lost, or stolen, any person interested...
• Section 1856.
  (a) Terms set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to the terms included therein may...
• Section 1857.
  The language of a writing is to be interpreted according to the meaning it bears in the place of its execution, unless the parties have...
• Section 1858.
  In the construction of a statute or instrument, the office of the Judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in...
• Section 1859.
  In the construction of a statute the intention of the Legislature, and in the construction of the instrument the intention of the parties, is to...
• Section 1860.
  For the proper construction of an instrument, the circumstances under which it was made, including the situation of the subject of the instrument, and of...
• Section 1861.
  The terms of a writing are presumed to have been used in their primary and general acceptation, but evidence is nevertheless admissible that they have...
• Section 1862.
  When an instrument consists partly of written words and partly of a printed form, and the two are inconsistent, the former controls the latter.(Enacted 1872.)
• Section 1864.
  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...
• Section 1865.
  A written notice, as well as every other writing, is to be construed according to the ordinary acceptation of its terms. Thus a notice to...
• Section 1866.
  When a statute or instrument is equally susceptible of two interpretations, one in favor of natural right, and the other against it, the former is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018