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Definition of nullity in English: nullitynounPlural nullities ˈnʌlɪtiˈnələdi 1Law An act or thing that is legally void. 〔律〕法律上无效的行为;法律上无效的东西 Example sentencesExamples - The plaintiff's solicitors believed that proceedings were a nullity and started new proceedings.
- The fact is the bankruptcy notice was a nullity.
- It is submitted that the certificates of default on the two recognizances in question are nullities because the justices failed to set out the reason for the default.
- The Board intended to make a final disposition but that disposition is a nullity.
- Is there not law that the orders of a superior court, as the Federal Court is by statute, are not nullities but are voidable and are valid as between the parties until set aside?
- 1.1mass noun The state of being legally void or invalid, especially with reference to a marriage.
法律上的无效;无法律效力(尤指婚姻) Example sentencesExamples - The number of nullity applications dropped by more than 70 per cent, from 941 in 1978 to 267 in 1998.
- Nullity proceedings are nowadays rare, though not wholly extinct.
- As I have indicated Mr Spence says that the case is authority for the general proposition that it is always open to a defendant to such proceedings to allege nullity in the notice as a defence.
- From June 15, 2000 the exemption also applies to couples who have a decree of nullity or a deed of separation.
- In 1981, eight nullity decrees were granted.
- A decree of nullity is a declaration that the marriage never existed.
- A nullity application can be brought at any stage after marriage - but the sooner, the better.
- Canon law did not permit divorce as distinct from annulment (although the term divorce was used even when nullity was in issue).
- In Ireland, the number of nullity decrees had been rising inexorably before divorce was introduced.
- In other cases the courts have struggled against the draconian result of nullity.
- Should nullity proceedings be abolished and replaced by divorce?
- I note that the Husband did not make any allegation of non-consummation in his cross petition nor did he seek a decree of nullity.
- Whenever the court has jurisdiction in the main proceedings for divorce, nullity or judicial separation, then it also has jurisdiction to order such variations.
- If the proper procedures were not followed, you may be entitled to a nullity decree.
- That to my mind is the distinction between invalidity and nullity.
- Last year, the court received 3,293 applications for divorce - and just 86 nullity applications.
- The general principle of Community law is that nullity is retroactive: once the act is annulled under Article 230 it is void ab initio.
- It can no longer be polygamous; the wife's consent is now required; divorce, originally precluded, is now authorized; and nullity for lack of age is recognized.
- I speak of the trial of actions including petitions for divorce or nullity in the High Court.
- In March 1999, the High Court refused a decree of nullity to a man whose wife had an affair with her employer shortly after the marriage.
Synonyms invalidity, non-validity illegality rare voidness
2A thing of no importance or worth. 不重要的东西,无价值的东西 Example sentencesExamples - On a matter deemed vital to the national interest of the United States, the UN should be used by the United States for whatever use it may be and otherwise considered a nullity.
- Bert Archer's op-ed piece made some valid points but he lost my support when he made the statement ‘an animal, whether farmed or domestic, is a moral nullity.’
- His big angle is the trigger mechanism - which has gotten almost no political traction, and which most observers now agree is a practical nullity.
- But then maybe those people on the lower tier are just " moral nullities " too.
- But he hasn't been unclear; he's been crystal clear, albeit in stating a nullity - the party has no position.
- In columns like this one he has mastered the art of simultaneously talking out of both sides of his mouth in words that add up to a nullity.
- I find myself arguing with nearly everything he says and does and thinks and believes, but he's not one of those angry nullities animated by hate and contempt.
- Commitment to fight corruption would be a nullity if the government fails to create an enabling environment for the media to expose and report on corruption.
- As I've said before, you can't assimilate with a nullity - which is what multiculturalism is.
- For some, there was fascism, a desperate escape from the nullity that was all that democracy seemed able to offer.
- Terse Bush certainly is, but unlike Beatty, I don't think he is a nullity.
- 2.1mass noun Nothingness.
无,不存在 Example sentencesExamples - In that sense, he is the perfect embodiment of the nullity of the modern Democratic Party.
- We associate black with nullity, with the void that is deep space, but here it is given the identity of a black goddess giving birth: simultaneously humanized and exalted.
- And he expressly asserts the entire nullity of the influence of all the Homoeopathic remedies tried by him in modifying, so far as he could observe, the progress or termination of the diseases.
- Even its delayed new building reflects the nullity as official auditors rubbish the assembly's claim that Richard Rogers's design would be too expensive.
Synonyms oblivion, non-existence, non-being, non-life
OriginMid 16th century: from French nullité, from medieval Latin nullitas, from Latin nullus 'none'. Definition of nullity in US English: nullitynounˈnələdēˈnələdi 1Law An act or thing that is legally void. 〔律〕法律上无效的行为;法律上无效的东西 Example sentencesExamples - The Board intended to make a final disposition but that disposition is a nullity.
- Is there not law that the orders of a superior court, as the Federal Court is by statute, are not nullities but are voidable and are valid as between the parties until set aside?
- It is submitted that the certificates of default on the two recognizances in question are nullities because the justices failed to set out the reason for the default.
- The plaintiff's solicitors believed that proceedings were a nullity and started new proceedings.
- The fact is the bankruptcy notice was a nullity.
- 1.1 The state of being legally void; invalidity, especially of a marriage.
法律上的无效;无法律效力(尤指婚姻) Example sentencesExamples - In March 1999, the High Court refused a decree of nullity to a man whose wife had an affair with her employer shortly after the marriage.
- I note that the Husband did not make any allegation of non-consummation in his cross petition nor did he seek a decree of nullity.
- In 1981, eight nullity decrees were granted.
- Whenever the court has jurisdiction in the main proceedings for divorce, nullity or judicial separation, then it also has jurisdiction to order such variations.
- Canon law did not permit divorce as distinct from annulment (although the term divorce was used even when nullity was in issue).
- It can no longer be polygamous; the wife's consent is now required; divorce, originally precluded, is now authorized; and nullity for lack of age is recognized.
- As I have indicated Mr Spence says that the case is authority for the general proposition that it is always open to a defendant to such proceedings to allege nullity in the notice as a defence.
- I speak of the trial of actions including petitions for divorce or nullity in the High Court.
- A nullity application can be brought at any stage after marriage - but the sooner, the better.
- That to my mind is the distinction between invalidity and nullity.
- The number of nullity applications dropped by more than 70 per cent, from 941 in 1978 to 267 in 1998.
- In other cases the courts have struggled against the draconian result of nullity.
- A decree of nullity is a declaration that the marriage never existed.
- From June 15, 2000 the exemption also applies to couples who have a decree of nullity or a deed of separation.
- Last year, the court received 3,293 applications for divorce - and just 86 nullity applications.
- If the proper procedures were not followed, you may be entitled to a nullity decree.
- Nullity proceedings are nowadays rare, though not wholly extinct.
- In Ireland, the number of nullity decrees had been rising inexorably before divorce was introduced.
- Should nullity proceedings be abolished and replaced by divorce?
- The general principle of Community law is that nullity is retroactive: once the act is annulled under Article 230 it is void ab initio.
2A thing of no importance or worth. 不重要的东西,无价值的东西 Example sentencesExamples - Bert Archer's op-ed piece made some valid points but he lost my support when he made the statement ‘an animal, whether farmed or domestic, is a moral nullity.’
- In columns like this one he has mastered the art of simultaneously talking out of both sides of his mouth in words that add up to a nullity.
- Commitment to fight corruption would be a nullity if the government fails to create an enabling environment for the media to expose and report on corruption.
- For some, there was fascism, a desperate escape from the nullity that was all that democracy seemed able to offer.
- But then maybe those people on the lower tier are just " moral nullities " too.
- His big angle is the trigger mechanism - which has gotten almost no political traction, and which most observers now agree is a practical nullity.
- As I've said before, you can't assimilate with a nullity - which is what multiculturalism is.
- I find myself arguing with nearly everything he says and does and thinks and believes, but he's not one of those angry nullities animated by hate and contempt.
- But he hasn't been unclear; he's been crystal clear, albeit in stating a nullity - the party has no position.
- On a matter deemed vital to the national interest of the United States, the UN should be used by the United States for whatever use it may be and otherwise considered a nullity.
- Terse Bush certainly is, but unlike Beatty, I don't think he is a nullity.
- 2.1 Nothingness.
无,不存在 Example sentencesExamples - Even its delayed new building reflects the nullity as official auditors rubbish the assembly's claim that Richard Rogers's design would be too expensive.
- In that sense, he is the perfect embodiment of the nullity of the modern Democratic Party.
- We associate black with nullity, with the void that is deep space, but here it is given the identity of a black goddess giving birth: simultaneously humanized and exalted.
- And he expressly asserts the entire nullity of the influence of all the Homoeopathic remedies tried by him in modifying, so far as he could observe, the progress or termination of the diseases.
Synonyms oblivion, non-existence, non-being, non-life
OriginMid 16th century: from French nullité, from medieval Latin nullitas, from Latin nullus ‘none’. |