California Code
PART 1 - FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE
CHAPTER 1 - The Marine Contract

ARTICLE 1 - Insurable Interests Peculiar to Marine Insurance

Section 1880. - 1880. The owner of a ship has in all cases...

Section 1881. - 1881. The insurable interest of the owner of a ship...

Section 1882. - 1882. Freightage, in marine insurance, signifies all the benefit derived...

Section 1883. - 1883. The owner of a ship has an insurable interest...

Section 1884. - 1884. The interest mentioned in the last section exists, in...

Section 1885. - 1885. In marine insurance, a person who has an interest...

Section 1886. - 1886. The charterer of a ship has an insurable interest...

ARTICLE 2 - Concealment and Representations Rules Peculiar to Marine Insurance

Section 1900. - 1900. In marine insurance each party is bound to communicate,...

Section 1901. - 1901. In marine insurance, information of the belief or expectation...

Section 1902. - 1902. A person insured by a contract of marine insurance...

Section 1903. - 1903. In marine insurance, concealment in respect to any of...

Section 1904. - 1904. In marine insurance, if a representation by the insured...

Section 1905. - 1905. The failure of subsequent circumstances to conform to a...

ARTICLE 3 - Implied Warranties Peculiar to Marine Insurance

Section 1920. - 1920. In every marine insurance upon a ship or involving...

Section 1921. - 1921. A ship is seaworthy when reasonably fit to perform...

Section 1922. - 1922. An implied warranty of seaworthiness is complied with if...

Section 1923. - 1923. A warranty of seaworthiness extends not only to the...

Section 1924. - 1924. Where any portion of the voyage contemplated by a...

Section 1925. - 1925. When a ship becomes unseaworthy during the voyage, an...

Section 1926. - 1926. A ship may be seaworthy for the purpose of...

Section 1927. - 1927. Where the nationality or neutrality of a ship or...

ARTICLE 4 - Effect of Course of Voyage

Section 1940. - 1940. When the voyage contemplated by marine insurance is described...

Section 1941. - 1941. If the course of sailing is not fixed by...

Section 1942. - 1942. Deviation is: (a) A departure from the course of...

Section 1943. - 1943. A deviation is proper: (a) When caused by circumstances...

Section 1944. - 1944. Every deviation not specified in the last section is...

Section 1945. - 1945. An insurer is not liable for any loss happening...

ARTICLE 5 - Loss in Marine Insurance

Section 1960. - 1960. A loss is either total or partial. (Enacted by...

Section 1961. - 1961. A total loss is either actual or constructive. (Enacted...

Section 1962. - 1962. An actual total loss is caused by: (a) A...

Section 1963. - 1963. A constructive total loss is one which gives to...

Section 1964. - 1964. An actual loss may be presumed from the continued...

Section 1965. - 1965. When a ship is prevented, at an intermediate port...

Section 1966. - 1966. In addition to the liability mentioned in section 1965,...

Section 1967. - 1967. Upon an actual total loss, the insured is entitled...

Section 1968. - 1968. Where it has been agreed that an insurance upon...

Section 1969. - 1969. When insurance is confined in its terms to an...

Section 1970. - 1970. Abandonment, in marine insurance, is the act of the...

Section 1971. - 1971. In marine insurance, after abandonment of the subject matter...

Section 1972. - 1972. An abandonment can not be either partial or conditional....

Section 1973. - 1973. An abandonment can be made only at a time...

Section 1974. - 1974. Where the information upon which an abandonment has been...

Section 1975. - 1975. Abandonment is made by giving oral or written notice...

Section 1976. - 1976. A notice of abandonment shall be explicit, and shall...

Section 1977. - 1977. An abandonment can be sustained only upon the cause...

Section 1978. - 1978. An abandonment is equivalent to a transfer to the...

Section 1979. - 1979. Whenever a marine insurer pays for a loss as...

Section 1980. - 1980. Upon an abandonment, acts done subsequent to the loss...

Section 1981. - 1981. An acceptance of an abandonment is not necessary to...

Section 1982. - 1982. The acceptance of an abandonment, whether express or implied,...

Section 1983. - 1983. An abandonment once made and accepted is irrevocable, unless...

Section 1984. - 1984. On an accepted abandonment of a ship, freightage earned...

Section 1985. - 1985. If an insurer refuses to accept a valid abandonment,...

Section 1986. - 1986. If an insured omits to abandon, he may nevertheless...

Section 1987. - 1987. (a) A valuation fraudulent in fact entitles a marine...

Section 1988. - 1988. In a case of partial loss, a marine insurer...

Section 1989. - 1989. Where profits are separately insured in marine insurance, in...

Section 1990. - 1990. In case of a valued policy of marine insurance...

Section 1991. - 1991. When profits are valued and insured by marine insurance,...

Section 1992. - 1992. In estimating a loss under an open policy of...

Section 1993. - 1993. If cargo insured against partial loss arrives at the...

Section 1994. - 1994. A marine insurer is liable for all the expense...

Section 1995. - 1995. In marine insurance, when an insured is required to...

Section 1996. - 1996. In marine insurance, where an insured has a demand...

Section 1997. - 1997. In the case of a partial loss of a...

ARTICLE 6 - Exemptions

Section 2010. - 2010. The provisions of Sections 481, 800, 801, 802, 803,...