When a contract's documents conflict, an 'order of precedence' clause is used to:

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When the signed agreement, the general conditions, the specifications and the drawings disagree — and on a real job they do — an order-of-precedence clause says which one wins, typically the agreement over the conditions over the specifications over the drawings, with addenda outranking what they amend. Without such a clause a court falls back on interpretation rules such as Civil Code §1651, under which specially written terms control over printed ones. (c) is the payment-priority misreading; the clause ranks DOCUMENTS, not people, and payment to subcontractors is governed by B&P §7108.5. (b) confuses it with a notice-of-claim or limitations provision. (a) confuses it with the rate schedule in a time-and-materials contract.