How have courts interpreted ambiguous language in a contract?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Jackson Jenkins Renstrom LLP, A138307 (Cal. App. 2015):
" 'The second stepthe ultimate construction placed upon the ambiguous languagemay call for differing standards of review, depending upon the parol evidence used to construe the contract.' (Winet v. Price, supra, 4 Cal.App.4th at pp. 1165-1166.)" (ASP Properties, supra, 133 Cal. App. 4th at pp. 1266-1268, fn. omitted.)
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