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Home Dictionary Name: null and void Page: 2Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation, 'the change of the substance of the Bread and Wine in the Supper of our Lord' (Art. 28 of the Thirtynine Articles of Religion); 'a conversion of the whole substance of the Bread into the Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into the Blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.'-Creed of Pope Pius IV., founded on Ch. iv., sess. xiii., of the Council of Trent.Declaration against Transubstantiation.-A Declaration (commonly called the 'Declaration against Transubstantiation') was required of all members of either House of Parliament in 1678, by 30 Car. 2, st. 2, c. 1, with the effect of disabling Roman Catholics from sitting in either House till the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 (10 Geo. 4, c. 7).Declaration by each new Sovereign.-Both the Bill of Rights (1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2), and the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), by an incorporation, by reference only, of 30 Car. 2, st. 2, c. 1 (of which 'so much as is u...
Reduction
Reduction, an action for the purpose of setting aside or rendering null and void some deed, will, right, etc, Bell's Scots Law Dict.The word 'reduction' is not necessarily confined to abolition but also includes keeping in abeyance of posts and the word certify occurring therein does not necessarily imply that a formal order is essential, K.S. Srinivasan v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 419: (1958) SCR 1295....
Overruling
Overruling, is an act of superior jurisdiction. A precedent overruled is definitely and formally deprived of all authority. If becomes null and void, like a repealed statute, and a new principle is authoritatively substituted for the old, Jurisprudence 189 (Glanville L. Williams, Editor, 10th Edn., 1947) John, Salmond.Means if a decision is not a recent one, and especially if it seems to be very poor, it should not be relied upon without ascertaining whether it may not have been expressly or impliedly overruled by some subsequent one; that is, whether the court may not have laid down a contrary principle in a later case. Where and How to Find the Law, Frank Hall Childs, 94 (1922).Overruling assumes that a contrary decision is given on the same facts or law. Where the law, has been changed and is no longer the same, there is no question of the Legislature overruling this Court, National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federa-tion v. Union of India, AIR 2003 SC 1329 (1334): (2003) 5 ...
Nullity of marriage
Nullity of marriage, a matrimonial suit instituted for the purpose of obtaining a decree, declaring that a supposed marriage in null and void. See MARRI-AGE.The (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1873 (36 Vict. c. 31), extended to proceedings for nullity of marriage the provisions of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Acts of 1860 and 1866, ss. 7 and 3 respectively, with reference to the intervention of the king's proctor, and see now Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937, and DIVORCE. See INTERVENTION, and Browne and Latey, Divorce....
Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act
Lyndhurst's (Lord) Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 54) rendered marriages within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity absolutely null and void. Theretofore such marriages were voidable merely. See MARRIAGE....
Impedimentum dirimens
Impedimentum dirimens, 'cause or impediment' to marriage which is not removed by the actual solemnisation of the rite, but continues in force and makes the marriage null and void (opposed to impedimentum impediens). See Sanchez de Matrimonio, lib. 7, disputatio 6....
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English)
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English), provides, with cer-tain exceptions, that all sales of corn (i.e., wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, and the bran and meal therefrom) shall be by weight and in terms of and by reference to the one hundred weight of 112 imperial standard pounds, otherwise transactions are null and void. The Act also applies to dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seeds of grass, clover, vetches, Swedes, field turnips, rape, filed cabbages, field kale, field kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugarbeet, flax and sainfoin. By s. 5 ibid. the price and value under any Act, award, or instrument of an imperial bushel shall have effect as if the price or value were calculated on that of sixty imperial pounds of wheat, fifty of barley and thirty nine of oats....
Irritant
Rendering null and void conditionally invalidating...
Attornment
Attornment [fr. tourner, Fr., to turn], the acknowledgement of a new lord on the alienation of land, and the assent or agreement of the tenant to attorn, as 'I become tenant to the purchaser.'-Co. Litt. 309. By s. 151 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, replacing 4 Anne, c. 16, ss. 9, 10, all grants and conveyances of lands, rents, reversions, etc., are good without the attornment of the tenants, but notice of the grants must be given to the tenants, before which they are not prejudiced by the payment of any rent to the grantor, or breach of the condition for non-payment, and by the same section of the (English) Act of 1925, replacing the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 11, attornments made by tenants to strangers claiming title to the estate of their landlord are null and void, and their landlord's possession is not affected thereby, except as provided by s. 151, ibid.The 'Attornment Clause' in a deed of mortgage is a clause whereby, for better sec...
Irritate
To render null and void...
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