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▪ I. irritancy1|ˈɪrɪtənsɪ|
[f. irritant a.1: see -ancy.]
Irritating quality or character; irritation, annoyance.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. xii, Not without a certain irritancy and even spoken invective. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 754 The source of great irritancy and vexation to the Colonists. 1900Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 8/2 A superior altitude..adds an irritancy to the monition tendered.
▪ II. ˈirritancy2 Rom., Civil, and Sc. Law.
[f. irritant a.2: see -ancy.]
The fact of rendering, or condition of being rendered, null and void.
1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. (1693) i. xiii. §14. 122 By payment at the Barr, it was allowed to be purged, even though the Party after the Irritancy got Possession. 1773Erskine Inst. Law Scot. ii. v. §27 Where the irritant clause was conceived in these words, ‘That the feu-right should fall, if two years duty happened to run into a third’, which was long the usual style, the irritancy was not incurred by our older practice till the whole of the third year's duty was due. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., The irritancy of a right is its forfeiture in consequence of some neglect or contravention... A lease may be dissolved during its currency by the operation of a legal as well as of a conventional irritancy. 1880Muirhead Gaius Dig. 613 Irritancy of a testament. A testament was irritated when the testator suffered capitis deminutio. 1886Pall Mall G. 9 Oct. 11/1 Guilty of that heinous Scotch crime known as ‘irritancy of the lease’. |