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Irritancy

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

The happening of a condition or event by which a charter, contract, or other deed, to which a clause irritant is annexed, becomes void. Ersk. Inst. bk.

2, tit. 5, note 25.

Irritancy is a kind of forfeiture. It is legal or conventional.

Burton, Real Prop. 298.