Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

IPSO FACTO

IRRITANCY

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tinguishable from defects In pleadings. & Chit. Gen. Pr. 509. The doing or not doing that, in the conduct of a suit at law, which, conformably with the practice of the court, ought or ought not to be done. 2 Ind. 252. In canon law. Any impediment which prevents a man from taking holy orders. 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. 18 N. T. 315, 321. 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. This phrase does not mean such an injury as is beyond the possibility of repair, or beyond possible compensation in damages, or neces sarily great damage, but includes an injury, whether great or small, which ought not to be submitted to, on the one hand, or inflicted, on the other; and which, because it is so large or so small, or is of such constant and fre quent occurrence, cannot receive reasonable redress in a court of law. 76 111. 322. Wrongs of a repeated and continuing char acter, or which occasion damages that are estimated only by conjecture, and not by any accurate standard, are included. 3 Pittsb. R. 204. IRREPLEVIABLE. That cannot be replevied or delivered on sureties. Spelled, also, "irreplevisable." Co. Litt. 145. IRRESISTIBLE FORCE. A term ap plied to such an interposition of human agency as is, from its nature and power, ab solutely uncontrollable; as the inroads of a hostile army. Story, Bailm. § 25. IRREVOCABLE. yoked or recalled. Which cannot be re« IRRIGATION. The operation of water ing lands for agricultural purposes by arti ficial means. IRRITANCY. InScotchlaw. The happening of a condition or event by which

In English ecclesiastical law. A cen sure of excommunication in the ecclesiastical court, immediately incurred for divers offen ses, after lawful trial. IPSO JURE. By the law itself; by the mere operation of law. Calvin. Ira furor brevis est. Anger is a short insanity. 4 Wend. 336, 355. IBA MOTUS. Moved or excited by an ger or passion. A term sometimes formerly used in the plea of son assault demesne. 1 Tidd, Pr. 645. IRE AD LARGUM. To goat large; to escape; to be set at liberty. IRENARCHA. In Roman law. An officer whose duties are described in Dig. 5, 4,18, 7. See Id. 48, 3, 6; Cod. 10, 75. Lit erally, a peace-officer or magistrate. IRREGULAR. Not according to rule; improper or insufficient, by reason of depart ure from the prescribed course. IRREGULAR DEPOSIT. A species of deposit which arises when a party, having a sum of money which he does not think safe in his own hands, confides it to another, (e. g. t a bank,) who is to return to him not the same money, but a like sum, when he shall demand it. An irregular deposit differs from a mu tuum simply in this respect: that the latter has principally in view the benefit of the bor rower, and the former the benefit of the bailor. Story, Bailm. § 84; Poth. du Depot. 82, 83. IRREGULAR PROCESS. Sometimes the term "irregular process" has been defined to mean process absolutely void, and not merely erroneous and voidable; but usually it has been applied to all process not issued in strict conformity with the law, whether the defect appears upon the face of the pro cess, or by reference to extrinsic facts, and whether such defects render the process ab solutely void or only voidable. 2 Ind. 252. IRREGULARITY. Violation or non observance of established rules and practices. The want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceeding; consisting either ia omitting to do something that is neces sary for the due and orderly conducting of a suit, or doing it in an unseasonable time or improper manner. 1 Tidd, Pr. 512. "Ir regularity" is the technical term for every defect in practical proceedings, or the mode i>f conducting an action or defense, as dis

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