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  • IRRELEVANCY
    The absence of the quality of relevancy in evidence or pleadings. Irrelevancy, in an answer, consists in statements which are not material to the decision of the case; such as do not form'or tender any material issue. People v. McCumber, 18 N. i. 321, 72 Am. Dec. 515; Walker v. More...
  • IRRELEVANT
    In the law of evidence. Not relevant; not relating or applicable to the matter In issue; not supporting the issue.
  • IRREMOVABILITY
    The status of a pauper in England, who cannot be legally removed from the parish or union in which he is receiving relief, notwithstanding that he has not acquired a settlement there. 3 Steph. Comm. 60.
  • IRREPARABLE INJURY
    See INJURY.
  • IRREPLEVIABLE
    That cannot be replevied or delivered on sureties. Spelled, also, "irreplevisable." Co. Litt. 145.
  • IRRESISTIBLE FORCE
    A term applied to such an Interposition of human agency as is, from its nature and power, absolutely uncontrollable; as the inroads of a hostile army. Story, Bailm. ? 25.
  • IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE
    Used chiefly in criminal law, this term means an impulse to commit an unlawful or criminal act which cannot be resisted or overcome by the patient because insanity or mental disease has destroyed the freedom of his will and his power of self-control and of choice as to his actions. More...
  • IRREVOCABLE
    Which cannot be revoked or recalled.
  • IRRIGATION
    The operation of watering lands for agricultural purposes by artificial means. -Irrigation company. A private corporation, authorized and regulated by statute in several states, having for its object to acquire exclusive rights to the water of certain streams or other sources of supply, and to convey, it by means of More...
  • IRRITANCY
    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.
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