Property insurance peril held to mean a rapid downward movement under the influence of gravity of a mass or rock or earth on a slope. The word rapid may in some cases give way to the concept of the ‘slow accident. Pressure built up over time before pushing over a wall may be landslip (Ombudsman view). Landslip is insured as an additional peril alongside subsidence and heave. In all forms of cover, normal land settlement and coastal erosion are excluded together with damage to boundary walls, gates and fences unless the buildings are damaged at the same time.
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The sliding down of a mass of land.