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Nullify

To make void to render invalid to deprive of legal force or efficacy...

Nullification

The act of nullifying a rendering void and of no effect or of no legal effect...

strike down : annul nullify [the trustee…can strike down transfers "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] ;esp : to declare (a law) illegal and unenforceable [the court struck down death penalty provisions "L. H. Tribe"] ...

legislative veto

legislative veto : a resolution passed by one or both houses of a legislature that is intended to nullify an administrative regulation or action ...

extinguish

extinguish 1 : to cause the nonexistence of : do away with 2 : to cause (as a claim or right) to be void : nullify 3 : to get rid of (a debt or other liability) by payment or other compensatory adjustment ex·tin·guish·able adj ex·tin·guish·ment n ...

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...

Restraint of marriage

Restraint of marriage. On the ground of public policy, conditions attached to gifts or bequests to a person who has never been married, if in general restraint of marriage, are void, i.e., the donee or legatee takes the gift or bequest whether he or she marry or not; but a condition in restraint of the second marriage, whether of a man or woman, is not void, see Allen v. Jackson, (1875) 1 Ch D 399, and a condition is good if the restraint be partial only, e.g., if there be a bequest, with a gift over if the legatee should marry a particular person, or without a particular person's consent. Consult Theobald on Wills.A condition (esp. in a gift or bequest, that nullifies the grant to which it applies of the grantee marries or remarries, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1316....

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