Definition of Irritancy

1. n. The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity; forfeiture.

2. n. The state or quality of being irritant or irritating.

Definition of Irritancy

1. Noun. The quality of being irritant or irritating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Irritancy

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irritancy

irrisory
irritabilities
irritability
irritable
irritable bowel disease
irritable bowel syndrome
irritable breast
irritable colon
irritable heart
irritable mood
irritableness
irritablenesses
irritably
irritainment
irritancies
irritancy (current term)
irritant
irritant contact dermatitis
irritant eczema
irritants
irritate
irritated
irritates
irritating
irritatingly
irritation
irritation cell
irritation fibroma
irritations
irritative

Literary usage of Irritancy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Leases: Explaining the Nature, Form, and Effect of the by Robert Bell, William Bell (1826)
"IT sometimes happens, that the prohibitions in the lease to subset or assign are guarded by an irritancy; the act of subsetting or assigning being declared ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"No irritancy was into decay, j-^jj {0 ]iave been incurred, but merely an emergence of a right to damages.1 Removing But in an analogous case an action of ..."

3. The Forms and Procedure in Civil Causes in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland by David Johnston Macbrair (1853)
"irritancy—Landlord's. An extension of the Sheriff's jurisdiction is provided by the recent statute, to the effect of making it competent for a landlord, ..."

4. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"An heir of entail, though he should be restrained under the strictest irritancy from the contracting of debt, may nevertheless settle a jointure on his ..."

5. Decisions of the Court of Session: From the Year 1733 to the Year 1754 ...by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison (1813)
"irritancy of a feu ob non solutum canonem, where the irritancy was, " if twelve terms feu-duty should run together unpaid :" The defender produced several ..."

6. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman, Scotland Courts (1905)
"In an action of declarator of irritancy by the superior, held that each subject was fenced with its own irritancy and that the feu- right of the singular ..."

7. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1837)
"According to familiar principles and decisions in the law of Scotland, no penal irritancy could take effect until decree of declarator, and it was competent ..."

8. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1841)
"The defender, Mr C. Graham, did not commit an act of irritancy by disposing of the lands of ... had fallen under the entail, that the irritancy was purged. ..."

9. A Treatise on Leases: Explaining the Nature, Form, and Effect of the by Robert Bell, William Bell (1826)
"IT sometimes happens, that the prohibitions in the lease to subset or assign are guarded by an irritancy; the act of subsetting or assigning being declared ..."

10. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"No irritancy was into decay, j-^jj {0 ]iave been incurred, but merely an emergence of a right to damages.1 Removing But in an analogous case an action of ..."

11. The Forms and Procedure in Civil Causes in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland by David Johnston Macbrair (1853)
"irritancy—Landlord's. An extension of the Sheriff's jurisdiction is provided by the recent statute, to the effect of making it competent for a landlord, ..."

12. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"An heir of entail, though he should be restrained under the strictest irritancy from the contracting of debt, may nevertheless settle a jointure on his ..."

13. Decisions of the Court of Session: From the Year 1733 to the Year 1754 ...by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison (1813)
"irritancy of a feu ob non solutum canonem, where the irritancy was, " if twelve terms feu-duty should run together unpaid :" The defender produced several ..."

14. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman, Scotland Courts (1905)
"In an action of declarator of irritancy by the superior, held that each subject was fenced with its own irritancy and that the feu- right of the singular ..."

15. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1837)
"According to familiar principles and decisions in the law of Scotland, no penal irritancy could take effect until decree of declarator, and it was competent ..."

16. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1841)
"The defender, Mr C. Graham, did not commit an act of irritancy by disposing of the lands of ... had fallen under the entail, that the irritancy was purged. ..."

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