{"data":{"id":"us-ca/civ-1649","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"CIV § 1649","heading":"","body":"If the terms of a promise are in any respect ambiguous or uncertain, it must be interpreted in the sense in which the promisor believed, at the time of making it, that the promisee understood it.","path":["Civil Code - CIV","DIVISION 3. OBLIGATIONS [1427. - 3273.91.]","PART 2. CONTRACTS [1549. - 1701.]","TITLE 3. INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS [1635. - 1663.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"1c83df4e3db924da24909c8a05864bb13430840e13b38a941357ea44d54795c5","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/civ-1648","next":"us-ca/civ-1650"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}