CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 317
Interpretation—Construction of Contract as a Whole
In deciding what the words of a contract meant to the parties, you
should consider the whole contract, not just isolated parts. Y ou should
use each part to help you interpret the others, so that all the parts make
sense when taken together.
New September 2003; Revised December 2014
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
- Content hash
b99c549c131ebc4217b3cef44b049742579e069208a7a62fa9184774e1909328
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