California · Civil Code
CIV §1642: Several contracts relating to the same matters, between the same parties, and made as parts of substantially one transaction, are to be taken together.
What this law says, in plain English
When multiple contracts involve the same parties, matters, and form one overall transaction, they are interpreted together as a single unit rather than separately.
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