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Irritancy

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Becoming void.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In Scots law. A becoming void or null; nullity; a clause in a conveyance declaring upon vrhat contingencies an estate shall become void.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Scotch, a becoming void, I. Void inva Ud in vain. the rules of the "conflict law, when applied to pubfacienda est ut res magis interpretation of deeds is to be effect than fail. administered to a party or; as of a prescription. a valid w Ul. within the walls, domestic among friends, out of court, four seas. 'over another's property^ land, at the death of a free in remainder or reversion, contemplation of marriage, Invadiatio: a gage, and carried in; a tenant's in reserving rent. Invenof a fee or benefice. non datur: a benefit against his will. Invito of the lord, the debtor. Ipsissimia verbis: in the fact itself. Ipso jure: by null. Is qui cognoscit, I. The cognizor. cognizee. lasint, fr. So; thus.