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Title 4 - EVIDENCE AND WITNESSESChapter 42 - EXECUTION, FORMALITIES AND INTERPRETATION OF WRITINGS
INTERPRETATION OF WRITINGS
Section 42.250 - Terms construed as generally accepted; evidence of other signification

ORS § 42.250

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Section 42.250 - Terms construed as generally accepted; evidence of other signification

The terms of a writing are presumed to have been used in their primary and general acceptation, but evidence is admissible that they have a technical, local, or otherwise peculiar signification and were used and understood in the particular instance, in which case the agreement shall be construed accordingly.

ORS 42.250