When a section of the California Civil Code provides for construction of a statute, how do courts interpret the construction of the statute?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Washington, H045208 (Cal. App. 2018):
need for construction. [Citations.] When the language is susceptible of more than one reasonable interpretation, however, we look to a variety of extrinsic aids, including the ostensible objects to be achieved, the evils to be remedied, the legislative history, public policy, contemporaneous administrative construction, and the statutory scheme of which the statute is a part. [Citations.]' [Citation.]" (People v. Perkins (2016) 244 Cal.App.4th 129, 136.)
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