(1) A decree of nullity is a declaration that the marriage never existed.

(2) A nullity application can be brought at any stage after marriage - but the sooner, the better.

(3) The Board intended to make a final disposition but that disposition is a nullity .

(4) 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.

(5) 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.

(6) 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 .

(7) The general principle of Community law is that nullity is retroactive: once the act is annulled under Article 230 it is void ab initio.

(8) 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.

(9) 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.

(10) Should nullity proceedings be abolished and replaced by divorce?

(11) As I've said before, you can't assimilate with a nullity - which is what multiculturalism is.

(12) 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.

(13) 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.

(14) That to my mind is the distinction between invalidity and nullity .

(15) In other cases the courts have struggled against the draconian result of nullity .

(16) In 1981, eight nullity decrees were granted.

(17) From June 15, 2000 the exemption also applies to couples who have a decree of nullity or a deed of separation.

(18) I speak of the trial of actions including petitions for divorce or nullity in the High Court.

(19) The plaintiff's solicitors believed that proceedings were a nullity and started new proceedings.

(20) 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.