Legal Definition and Related Resources of Landslide

Sliding down of mass of soil or rock on steep slope. See Olmstead v Lumbermans mutual Ins. Co., 259 N.E.2d 123, 22 Ohio St.2d 212.

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Landslide in Historical Law

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Landslide

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also land-slide, 1841, “fall or down-slide of a mass of rock, earth, etc. from a slope or mountain,” American English, from land; this term is also a noun. + slide; this term is also a noun. Earlier was landslip (1670s), which is preferred in Britain. Old English used eor_gebyrst in this sense; literally “earth-burst.” Landslide in the political sense “lopsided electoral victory” is attested from 1888.