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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
The contract is consummated when the vendor delivers a deed to the purchaser and the purchaser pays the vendor's price. Consummation of the contract is variously referred to as the closing of escrow, the date of closing, or simply the closing. The vendor-purchaser relationship is based on the unique nature of land.