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Home Dictionary Name: nullnull
null [Anglo-French nul, literally, not any, from Latin nullus, from ne- not + ullus any] : having no legal or binding force : void [a contract] ...
Nulled
Turned so as to resemble nulls...
Null and void
Null and void. These words when used in a statute or legal document indicate the exact contrary of the words 'full force and effect.'...
Summonitiones aut citationes null' liceant fieri intra palatium regis
Summonitiones aut citationes null' liceant fieri intra palatium regis. 3 Inst. 141, (Let no summonses or citations be served within the king's palace). See Att.-Gen. v. Dakin, (1869-70) R 4 HL 338; Combe v. De la Bere, (1881-82) 22 Ch D 316....
Void
Void, 'the erosion of the distinction between juris-dictional errors and non-jurisdictional errors has, correspondingly eroded the distinction between void and voidable decision. The courts have become increasingly impatient with the distinction, to the extent that (1) All official decisions are presumed to be valid until set aside or otherwise held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction', Judicial Review of Administrative Action, De Smith, Woolf and Jowell, 1995 Edn., p. 259-60.Void, denotes 'if an act or decision, or an order or other instrument is invalid, it should, in principal be null and void for all purposes; and it has been said that there are no degrees of nullity. Even though such an act is wrong and lacking in jurisdiction, however, it subsists and remains fullyeffective unless and until it is set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction. Until its validity is challenged, its legality is preserved', Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., (Re-issue), Vol. 1(1), ...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
abate
abate abat·ed abat·ing [Old French abattre, literally, to knock down, from a-, prefix stressing result + battre to beat] vt 1 a : to put an end to or do away with [ a nuisance] b : make void : nullify [ an action] 2 : to reduce in amount esp. proportionately [ a tax] vi 1 : to become defeated or become null or void [when a public officer is a party to an appeal…in an official capacity and during its pendency dies…the action does not "Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure Rule 43"] 2 : to decrease in amount or value [the legacies abated proportionately] NOTE: A problem arises in estate law when the amount of the bequests and devises made in a will exceeds the assets available in the estate. In such a case, some or all of the bequests and devises may have to be abated to make up the deficit. Under the Uniform Probate Code, property in the estate that is not specifically given under the will abates first, residuary devises abate second, general devises abate...
annul
annul an·nulled an·nul·ling 1 : to declare (a marriage) to have never validly existed compare divorce 2 a : to make legally void b : to declare to no longer have legal effect ...
cause
cause 1 : something that brings about an effect or result [the negligent act which was the of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry cause in fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in this entry di·rect cause : proximate cause in this entry ef·fi·cient in·ter·ven·ing cause : superseding cause in this entry intervening cause 1 : an independent cause that follows another cause in time in producing the result but does not interrupt the chain of causation if foreseeable called also supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : super...
condition
condition 1 : an uncertain future act or event whose occurrence or nonoccurrence determines the rights or obligations of a party under a legal instrument and esp. a contract ;also : a clause in the instrument describing the act or event and its effect concurrent condition : a condition that is to be fulfilled by one party at the same time that a mutual condition is to be fulfilled by another party condition implied in law : constructive condition in this entry condition precedent [-pri-sēd-nt, -pre-sə-dənt] : a condition that must be fulfilled before performance under a contract can become due, an estate can vest, or a right can become effective condition subsequent : a condition whose fulfillment defeats or modifies an estate or right already in effect or vested or discharges an already existing duty under a contract constructive condition : a condition created by operation of law called also condition implied in law compare express condition in this entry e...
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