What is the test for admissibility of extrinsic evidence to explain the meaning of a contract?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Pinza v. Kimo, Inc., A147458 (Cal. App. 2018):

As KIMO correctly points out, ambiguity is not determined in the abstract. Therefore, "when a party contends the language of a contract is ambiguous the test for the admissibility of extrinsic evidence to explain the meaning of the contract is not whether the contract appears to the court to need interpreting 'but whether the offered evidence is relevant to prove a meaning to which the language of the instrument is reasonably susceptible.' " (Wagner v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th

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