In marine insurance, after abandonment of the subject matter of insurance or of any particular portion thereof which is separately valued by the policy or otherwise separately insured, in a case where the cause of the loss is a peril insured against the insured may recover for a total loss, as described in section 1963, if:
- (a) More than half in value of the subject matter is actually lost by such peril, or would have to be expended to recover it from the peril.
- (b) The subject matter is injured to such an extent as to reduce its value more than half.
- (c) The subject matter is a ship, and either the contemplated voyage can not be lawfully performed without incurring either an expense to the insured of more than half the value of the ship abandoned or a risk which a prudent man would not take under the circumstances.
- (d) The subject matter is cargo or freightage and the voyage can not be performed, nor another ship procured by the master to forward the cargo, within a reasonable time, with reasonable diligence and without incurring an expense to the insured of more than half the value of the subject matter or a risk which a prudent man would not take under the circumstances. But freightage can not in any case be abandoned unless the ship also is abandoned.