{"code":"CCP","codeName":"Code of Civil Procedure","section":"1864","citation":"Code Civ. Proc., § 1864","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"PART 4. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS [1855. - 2107.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/part-4"},{"name":"TITLE 1. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE [1855. - 1866.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/part-4/title-1"}],"history":"Enacted 1872.","effective":null,"html":"<p>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.</p>","text":"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.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/code-of-civil-procedure/of-the-general-principles-of-evidence-1864","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}