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absolute nullity

absolute nullity see nullity

Absolute nullity

Absolute nullity, means an act that is void because it is against

nullity

act, proceeding, or contract void of legal effect compare impediment absolute nullity in the civil law of Louisiana : a contract or … order, interest, law, or morals [a bigamous marriage is an absolute nullity "Louisiana Civil Code"] ;also : the quality or state of

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Decree nisi

first instance, be a decree nisi not to be made absolute until after the expiration of six months from the pronouncing … Act,1925, s. 183(1) every decree for a divorce or for nullity of marriage shall, in the first instance, be a decree

Marriage

are divorced may marry again after the decree is made absolute. as to this, and as to how far the English … was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered

Void

26, p. 31. Void, has a relative rather than an absolute meaning. It only conveys the Idea that the order is … it has been said that there are no degrees of nullity. Even though such an act is wrong and lacking in

Widow

surviving husband or wife shall take the personal chattels (q.v.) absolutely and in addition the residuary estate of the intestate shall … with regard to whom she had obtained a declaration of nullity of marriage is not his widow, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th

relative

relative 1 : not absolute 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : having or … some legal effect [a impediment] [a simulation] see also relative nullity at nullity rel·a·tive·ly adv

Divorce

pregnancy at time of marriage by another man. A decree absolute may be made against the party obtaining the decree nisi. … grounds. See JUDICIAL SEPARATION. Additional grounds for a decree of nullity of marriage are: (a) refusal to consummate, (b) mental deficiency

King's proctor

against a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage being made absolute without the leave of the Court, Gray v. Gray, (1861) … to intervene in petitions for dissolution or for declaration of nullity of marriage to defeat collusion or the suppression of material

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