Interpretation of Contracts

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1. Under Article 1370, what ordinarily controls when contractual terms are clear and leave no doubt about the parties’ int…
2. If contractual words appear contrary to the parties’ evident intention, which prevails under Article 1370?
3. What does Article 1371 direct courts principally to consider in judging contractual intention?
4. A service agreement’s first clause describes monthly inspection. A later clause defines the inspection as covering elec…
5. A party deliberately causes an obscure phrase to be inserted and then asks that the obscurity be interpreted solely in …
6. A warehouse contract uses a term with two possible meanings. One reading is consistent with the defined storage service…
7. After applying the preceding interpretive rules, a court finds it absolutely impossible to resolve a doubt about an inc…
8. Explain the two rules in Article 1370 and why they do not authorize a party to replace clear agreed terms with a later …
9. A contract contains a general service clause and a detailed clause explaining its coverage. Explain the role of reading…
10. Contrast Article 1378’s residual treatment of an irresolvable incidental doubt in gratuitous and onerous contracts with…
11. Under 1372, do broad general terms automatically include every different thing or case the parties did not intend?
12. What 1376 source may assist in interpreting contract ambiguities?