Nullity

A "Declaration of Nullity," as Catholic annulment is technically known, does not mean the marriage never happened.

Cathleen Falsani: Annulment: Theological Sleight of Hand 2008

France as a Nullity, that We might disregard at our pleasure and treat with

John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

There is a passage in this treatise "On the Nullity of Magic" of remarkable character, as exhibiting the achievements, or, if not the actual achievements, the things esteemed possible by the inventors of the thirteenth century.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Occasionally, from some branch that overhangs a _Nullah_, he will drop down on the thirsty eland or hartbeest, rendering resistance a Nullity; but his favorite game is fighting the tiger, at which, unlike the human species, he always wins when in the vein for that kind of sport.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 Various

And herein is Divinity conformant unto Philosophy, and generation not onely founded on contrarieties, but also creation; God, being all things, is contrary unto nothing, out of which were made all things, and so nothing became something, and Omneity informed Nullity into an Essence.

Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

+ Canon 6: Nullity of the ordinations performed by the heresiarch

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

And the fact stands out with clearness that the passage in Gladstone's "Nullity of Leadership" letter, which was the root cause of all the trouble that followed, would never have been published were it not that the political hacks, through motives of party expediency, insisted on its inclusion.

Ireland Since Parnell 1910

It is, as I have already inferred, now made abundantly clear that Gladstone would not have included in his letter the famous "Nullity of Leadership" passage if other counsels had not overborne his own better judgment.

Ireland Since Parnell 1910

And herein is Divinity conformant unto Philosophy, and generation not onely founded on contrarieties, but also creation; GOD, being all things, is contrary unto nothing, out of which were made all things, and so nothing became something, and Omneity informed Nullity into an Essence.

Paras 36-70 1909

Nullity of marriage must not be too often allowed; once a marriage is made it is a serious matter to undo it.

The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860