How can a court interpret a contract where a party's subsequent conduct is interpreted?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Berns v Berns, 2019 BCSC 25 (CanLII):
However, the court cannot look to the parties’ subsequent conduct to interpret their contract unless it has first found that the contract is ambiguous: Wade Estate v. Duck, 2018 BCCA 176 at para. 28:
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