EQUIVOCA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EQUIVOCAL. What has a double sense.
       2. In the construction of contracts, it is a general rule that when an 
  expression may be taken in two senses, that shall be preferred which gives 
  it effect. Vide Ambiguity; Construction; Interpretation; and Dig. 22, 1, 4; 
  Id 45, 1, 80; Id. 50, 17, 67.