Land Contract

A type of instrument used in connection with the sale of real estate. It differs from a mortgage in that title to the land remains with the seller until the buyer has completed the payments, though possession rests with the buyer. Superficially, a land contract is the instrument that conveys the deed of land from one person to another person upon full payment of the stated purchase price.

Landslip

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.