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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Irritancy, n. Also: -ancie. [f. Irritant adj.] The nullification of a deed resulting from the contravention of the ‘irritant’ conditions; a clause providing for this, an irritant clause. —1680 Fountainhall Decis. I. 109.
Halgreen had incurred the irritancy of his few-charter through not paying of his fewduty1681 Stair Inst. i. xiii. § 14.
By payment at the barr it was allowed to be purged, even though the party after the irritancy got possession Ib. ii. iii. § 58.
It is much debated amongst the feudists, about clauses de non alienando, with an irritancy or resolutive clause1681 Edinb. B. Rec. XI. 18.
They shall incurr the Councells severe senseur ... attour the irritancie of nullifieing what the saids trads shall doe theranent
