Section 1943.  


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  • A deviation is proper:

    (a) When caused by circumstances over which neither the master nor the owner of the ship has any control.

    (b) When necessary to comply with a warranty, or to avoid a peril, whether or not the peril is insured against.

    (c) When made in good faith and upon reasonable grounds of belief in its necessity to avoid a peril.

    (d) When made in good faith, for the purpose of saving human life or relieving another vessel in distress.

(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 145.)