annulment

annul | American Dictionary

annul
verb[ T ]
 lawus/əˈnʌl/-ll-
to announce officially a law, marriage, or other contract as no longer existing:
The contract was finally annulled.

annulment

noun[ C ]us/əˈnʌl·mənt/
law
You will need a court hearing to get an annulment.

annul | Business English

annul
verb[ T ]
 LAWuk /əˈnʌl/us
to state officially that something such as a law, agreement, or marriage no longer exists:
The court did not annul the sentences but ruled they should be reviewed.
We will seek an early hearing in order to get the bankruptcy annulled.

annulment

noun[ C or U ]
They asked for an annulment of their marriage.

Examples of annul

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Likewise, our concern for the welfare of the criminal can outweigh our obligation to annul the crimes of that criminal.
When closure annuls benefits commitments, the compositional effect is eliminated, so that aggregate employment is suppressed by much less than otherwise.
Only annulment can end a marriage, therefore a large number of marriages are annulled.
It is only an act of punishment that is a part of a consistent, well-run punitive practice that can annul a crime.
Previously she had had an unsatisfactory marriage which was annulled on the grounds of non-consummation.
Many philosophers regard the idea of annulling crime as extremely dubious, if not ridiculous.
Though such commissions effectively annulled provisions in corporate charters, their use was entirely within the law of franchises by which such charters were granted.
Rather than risk confiscation, the family moved to annul the will.
Perversely this annuls the effect the treatment was intended to create.
In order for punishment to annul crimes, punitive practices must be public.
Denouncements fail to annul, because to respond to a crime with such a denouncement is, in fact, to give two responses.
It is true that annulling a crime brings about consequences-the validation of the victim's rights and the invalidation of the criminal will.
This arrangement could also lead to an even steeper increase in the number of expensive medical devices, since previous procedures of site planning are annulled.
The old aristocratic conciliar form of government, and the string of royal electoral charters on which it had been based since 1282, were annulled.
The government cannot annul this contract and replace it with another without risking a storm of protest.
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