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nul·li·ty

 (nŭl′ĭ-tē)
n. pl. nul·li·ties
1. The state or quality of being null.
2. Something that is null, especially an act having no legal validity.
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nullity

(ˈnʌlɪtɪ)
n, pl -ties
1. the state of being null
2. (Law) a null or legally invalid act or instrument
3. something null, ineffective, characterless, etc
[C16: from Medieval Latin nullitās, from Latin nullus no, not any]
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nul•li•ty

(ˈnʌl ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties.
1. the state or quality of being null; nothingness; invalidity.
2. something null.
3. something of no legal force or validity.
[1560–70; < Medieval Latin nūllitās. See null, -ity]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.nullity - the state of nonexistence
nonentity, nonexistence - the state of not existing
thin air - nowhere to be found in a giant void; "it vanished into thin air"
2.nullity - something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
act, enactment - a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
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nullity

noun invalidity, voidness, non-legality When there has been no legal marriage a judge may pronounce a decree of nullity.
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Translations

nullity

[ˈnʌlɪtɪ] Nnulidad f
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nullity

n (Jur) → Ungültigkeit f, → Nichtigkeit f
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nullity

[ˈnʌlɪtɪ] nnullità
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References in classic literature ?
Our impulses, our spiritual activities, no more adjust themselves to the idea of their future nullity, than the beating of our heart, or the irritability of our muscles.
It follows from all this that the ultimate, aggregate, or absolute effect of even the best epic under the sun, is a nullity: -- and this is precisely the fact.
Pullet's character was not of that entire nullity which might otherwise have been attributed to it.
It had, I say, in every respect, the appearance of its fellow in the other window; but this fact was an absolute nullity (conclusive us it might seem to be) when compared with the consideration that here, at this point, terminated the clew.
Let ([M.sup.2n+1], [phi], [??], [eta], g) be an almost Kenmotsu manifold of dimension > 3 such that the characteristic vector field [??] belongs to the (k, [mu])'- nullity distribution and k < -1.
ISLAMABAD -- PTI central leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said only one statement of Sartaj Aziz has completely white washed peration Zarbe Azb to nullity adding the statement issued by foreign office is not sufficient but they will have to disown the statement.
The BAPT is a paradox in that its substance comes from its being a tax nullity (a disregarded entity for tax purposes).
But no one previously said the number was anything like 90 percent, making the labor laws a virtual nullity.
First, Cardinal Kasper offers the proposal of simplifying the procedure for the faithful to obtain a declaration of nullity. When the faithful feel, in conscience, that their marriage was not valid, they are free to approach an ecclesiastical tribunal to begin a cause in order to obtain a declaration of nullity.
The nullity of a simple graph G is the multiplicity of the eigenvalue zero in the spectrum of A(G), denoted by [eta](G).
The primary focus of the programme this year is in the professional sphere of arbitration in disputes of capital markets in the GCC on the legal system of arbitration, evidencing, the applicable law, methods of appeal for nullity in capital markets and the integration of the GCC financial markets.
Now official documents have been published for the first time, allowing everyone a glimpse at the doomed Durham vs Durham nullity case - the third Earl of Durham's bid to extricate himself from his insane wife.