Irritancy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irritancy \Ir"ri*tan*cy\, n. [From 1st {Irritant}.] (Scots Law)
     The state or quality of being null and void; invalidity;
     forfeiture. --Burrill.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Irritancy \Ir"ri*tan*cy\, n. [From 2d {Irritant}.]
     The state or quality of being irritant or irritating.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IRRITANCY. In Scotland, it is 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. B. 2, t. 5, n. 25. Irritancy is a kind of 
  forfeiture. It is legal or conventional. Burt. Man. P. R. 29 8.