Ex parte Livingston v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “‘An ambiguity can be patent, arising from the face of the writing, or latent, based on extrinsic evidence.’” (quoting Solis v. Kirkwood Resort Co., 94 Cal. App. 4th 354, 360–61 (2001))
• “[A]n ambiguity cannot be 9 created by parsing words outside their context.”
• “Where the same 13 word or phrase might have been used in the same connection in different portions of a statute but a 14 different word or phrase having different meaning is used instead, the construction employing that 15 different meaning is to be favored.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).