Marine Insurance Act, 1963
56. Partial and total loss
(1) A loss may be
either total or partial. Any loss other than a total loss, as hereinafter
defined, is a partial loss.
(2) A total loss may be
either an actual total loss, or a constructive total loss.
(3) Unless a different
intention appears form the terms of the policy, an insurance against total loss
includes a constructive, as well as an actual, total loss.
(4) Where the assured
brings a suit for a total loss and the evidence proves only a partial loss, he
may, unless the policy otherwise provides, recover for a partial loss.
(5) Where goods reach
their destination in specie, but by reason of obliteration of marks, or
otherwise, they are incapable of identification, the loss, if any, is partial
and not total.