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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 704
Contracts - Interpreted Against the Party Which Wrote the Contract
A contract is interpreted more strictly against the party which wrote the contract. If there
are conditions or terms in a contract that may reasonably be interpreted or understood to have
more than one meaning, then those conditions or terms are interpreted against the party which
wrote the contract.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 704 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
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