DEFINITION of 'Land Contract'. An agreement between a buyer and seller of property in which the buyer makes payments toward full ownership (as with a mortgage), but in a land contract, the title or deed is held by the owner until the full payment is made. land contract can be thought of as a lease with an option to buy. Certain states have more generous legal rights for land contract holders than others. As a result, the world of land contracts can be difficult to navigate.
Definition of Gesneriaceae. : a large family of tropical herbs or rarely woody plants (order Polemoniales) having chiefly opposite leaves and strongly zygomorphic flowers.
Wiehler will tell you gesneriads are wonderful and even intelligent plants, ingeniously adapted to their environments and fascinating from the tips of their shapely leaves to their quirky sex lives (disparate species can be bred to produce new species, and many are pollinated by only a single kind of insect out of the near-infinite number in the tropics).