When insurance is confined in its terms to an actual total loss, it does not cover a constructive total loss, but it does cover any loss which necessarily results in depriving the insured of the possession, at the port of destination, of the entire subject matter insured.
Cal. Ins. Code § 1969
Loss in Marine Insurance
Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.
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