nullity [nuhl-i-tee]  

annulment

  [uh-nuhl-muhnt]

Legal invalidation of a marriage. It announces the invalidity of a marriage that was void from its inception. It is to be distinguished from dissolution or divorce. To justify annulment, the marriage contract must have a defect (e.g., incompetence of one party because of age, insanity, or a preexisting marriage). Continued absence of one party may also justify annulment. Generally, annulment is easier if the marriage is unconsummated. Both secular law and Christian canon law have annulment procedures.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Nullity

Nullity may refer to:

  • Nullity (conflict), a legal declaration that no marriage had ever come into being
  • The nullity of a mathematical operator, which is the dimension of its null space
  • Nullity, a mathematical concept proposed by James Anderson, defined as the value 0/0 and represented by the character Φ

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