What is the test for a court to construe a section of the California Code of Civil Procedure in the context of ambiguous language?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Escobedo v. Estate of Snider, 14 Cal.4th 1214, 60 Cal.Rptr.2d 722, 930 P.2d 979 (Cal. 1997):

Faced with ambiguous statutory language, we endeavor to find the interpretation that will best further the statutory purposes. (People v. Coronado (1995) 12 Cal.4th 145, 151, 48 Cal.Rptr.2d 77, 906 P.2d 1232.) "[T]he court must consider the consequences that might flow from a particular construction and should construe the statute so as to promote rather than defeat the statute's purpose and policy." (Sylva v. Board of Supervisors (1989) 208 Cal.App.3d 648, 654, 256 Cal.Rptr. 138.)

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