CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 316
Interpretation—Meaning of Technical Words
Y ou should assume that the parties intended technical words used in the
contract to have the meaning that is usually given to them by people
who work in that technical field, unless you decide that the parties
clearly used the words in a different sense.
New September 2003; Revised December 2014
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
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