Category:Nullity

Nul"li*ty, n.; pl. Nullities. Etym: [ll. nullitias, fr. L. nullus None: cf. F. nullité . See null.]

1. The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy Or force.

2. (law)

Defn: nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree That no legal marriage exists.

3. That which is null. Was it not absurd to say that the convention was supreme in the State, and yet a nullity macaulay.