Nullifier

nullify

nullify -fied -fy·ing : to make null [ a contract] ...

nullification

nullification : the act of nullifying : the state of being nullified see also jury nullification ...

One who nullifies or makes void one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties...

offside

Illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck in sports such as football or hockey as the touchdown was nullified because the left tackle was offside...

Quia improvide emanavit

Quia improvide emanavit (because it issued mistakenly). A supersede as to quash and nullify a writ erroneously issued....

Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong presumption of notice that equity will not allow the presumption to be rebutted. [S. 154, I.P.C. and Art. 61(2)(a) const. 56 Indian Evidence Act]Constructive notice may be subdivided into: (a) where the facts of which actual evidence is supplied give rise to a further enquiry which a man exercising ordinary caution would make equity has added constructive notice of the facts, which that inquiry would have elicited; and (b) where there has been a designed abstinence from inquiry for the very purpose of avoiding notice. See CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.A purchaser with notice may protect himself by purchasing the title of another bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, ...

Forfeiture

Forfeiture, a penalty for an offence or unlawful act, or for some wilful omission of a tenant of property whereby he loses it, together with his title, which devolves upon others.Forfeiture resulted from the following circumstan-ces:--(1) Treason, misprision of treason, felony, murder, self-murder, pr'munire, and striking or threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry. The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts.(2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled to the land. But the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914 (substituted for the (English) Naturalization Act, 1870), subject to certain provisoes, enables ali...

Annulment

Annulment, means the act of nullifying or making void. A judicial or ecclesiastical declaration that a marriage is void. Unlike a divorce, an annulment establishes that marital status never existed in law, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 89....

Kulturkampf

Lit culture war a name originating with Virchow 1821 1902 given to a struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the German government chiefly over the latters efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization The struggle began with the passage by the Prussian Diet in May 1873 of the so called May laws or Falk laws aiming at the regulation of the clergy Opposition eventually compelled the government to change its policy and from 1880 to 1887 laws virtually nullifying the May laws were enacted...

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