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UK
/nˈʌlɪti/
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NOUN
- something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
- the state of nonexistence
How To Use nullity In A Sentence
- If a person attempted to remarry after obtaining an unrecognised foreign divorce - or a church nullity alone - the subsequent ‘marriage’ would be bigamous and void.
- But, acting in an official character, neither myself nor any human authority had the power to rejudge the proceedings of the convention and declare the constitution which it had framed to be a nullity. State of the Union Address
- We associate black with nullity, with the void that is deep space, but here it is given the identity of a black goddess giving birth: simultaneously humanized and exalted.
- If the proper procedures were not followed, you may be entitled to a nullity decree.
- I note that the Husband did not make any allegation of non-consummation in his cross petition nor did he seek a decree of nullity.
- His big angle is the trigger mechanism - which has gotten almost no political traction, and which most observers now agree is a practical nullity.
- The impotency which is a cause of nullity is the incapacity of having conjugal relations The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
- The general principle of Community law is that nullity is retroactive: once the act is annulled under Article 230 it is void ab initio.
- Nullity of company establishment is a law system to resolve formation with flaws.
- In 1981, eight nullity decrees were granted.