§ 1722.Need to Promote Uniformity of Law

Because this chapter enacts a uniform law meant to apply across many states, this section reminds courts of that shared purpose whenever a question of interpretation arises. In applying and construing this chapter, a court should give weight to the goal of promoting uniformity of the law among the states that have adopted their own version of the same act.

That instruction points courts toward looking at how other enacting states have resolved similar questions, rather than developing an entirely California-specific reading of language shared across many jurisdictions. Keeping interpretations consistent from state to state serves the underlying reason a uniform law exists in the first place: so a litigant does not face a fundamentally different recognition standard depending only on which enacting state happens to hear the case.