TITLE 1. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE [1855. - 1866.]

Title 1 enacted 1872.

§§ 1855–1866 · 11 sections

• § 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 may file in the…
• § 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 not be…
• § 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 reference to a…
• § 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 substance contained therein,…
• § 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 be pursued, if…
• § 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 the…
• § 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 a local,…
• § 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.
• § 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 either party in which…
• § 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 the drawers or…
• § 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 to be…