Since the annulment of his marriage with Josephine he had gone into a sort of retirement.
In 1809 Napoleon, then at the plenitude of his power, shook himself free from the clinging clasp of Josephine and procured the annulment of his marriage to her.
But the king, deeply in love with Agnes, declared that this recognition of Ingeburge was only provisional, since he meant to appeal once more to Rome for an annulment of the marriage.
Less frank and more politic than Louis, Eleanor sought for an annulment of the marriage on the ground that she and Louis were cousins--they were related in the sixth degree.
Philippe began proceedings to obtain an annulment of the marriage, which, he asseverated, had never been consummated.
Besides, he had no information as to the way in which the Austrian court looked on the annulment of the religious marriage of Napoleon and Josephine by the officials of the diocese of Paris, who had acted independently of the Pope.
To these two grounds for annulment a third was added, a new one, which could not fail to surprise the officials.
It is evident that the reason for such behaviour is none other than the annulment of those rules, customs, habits, and ceremonials to which they have been subjected.
At the same time a system of stricter control over the dominions was ushered in by the annulment of the old charter of Massachusetts which conferred so much self-government on the Puritans.
After a law had run the gantlet of both houses and the executive, it was subject to interpretation and annulment by the judiciary, appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate and serving for life.
And this meant death to sin; the abrogation and annulment of bad habits and tendencies; resurrection with Christ to the higher life which He taught us to pursue.
Following this example, Arnold preached "Grace and peace by the annulment of our ordinary self," and what he preached he practised.
After the annulment of the marriage, Marguerite said: "If our household has been little noble and less bourgeois, our divorce was royal.
Also he induced his Highness to comprehend that the Pope, though ready to gather all men, and especially princes, into the maw of Rome, could not make a double marriage legal where there was no feasible plea for annulment of the first union.
An action for the annulment of marriage has for its purpose the setting aside of the marriage contract on the theory that proper consent to the marriage has never been given by both the parties.
A woman cannot contract a new marriage until ten months after the dissolution or annulment of a former marriage, unless the marriage was annulled on the ground of impotence.
Want of legal age of either party is not a ground forannulment if a child is born, the issue of the union.
While the Mexican law does not recognize absolute divorce it does provide for the annulment or setting aside absolutely of certain marriages.
The civil effects of a divorce or annulment of marriage are as follows: 1.
Impotence, when anterior to marriage, may be put forward as a ground for annulment by either party.
Such marriages as we have pointed out above are not void, but voidable, and any of the grounds sufficient for annulment may be waived by the aggrieved spouse.
After the annulment of a marriage the sons over three years of age shall remain in the care of the father and the daughters in the care of the mother, provided there was good faith on the part of both spouses.
This once done, Berenger's own supposed infidelity would have forced him to acquiesce in the annulment of the original marriage.
Decisions by archbishops in testamentary, matrimonial, and marriage annulment matters were appealable to the Court of Chancery instead of to the pope.
When Wolsey was not able to convince the pope to give Henry an annulment of his marriage, Henry dismissed him and took his property, shortly after which Wolsey died.
In German lands the diocesan court of the bishop had become the ordinary tribunal for divorce causes; and for annulment of the uncanonical separation an exact formula, the oath of reconciliation, had been devised.
The corruption and injustice often attending the proceedings of the old spiritual courts in actions for annulment of wedlock are revealed in Archbishop Abbot's The Case of Impotency As Debated in England, In that Remarkable Tryal An.
But more was needed to make the annulment legal than the verdict of universities.
He therefore applied to the pope for annulment of marriage, but the unhappy Clement VII, now in the emperor's fist, felt unable to give it to him.
Divorce or annulment of marriage was not hard to obtain by people of influence, whether Catholic or Protestant, but it was a more difficult matter than it is in America now.
For both, annulmentwas preferred to the ordinary form of divorce, as more honorable for Josephine; and a defect in procedure or a great state reason were to constitute the grounds of dissolution.
Agreeably to the decision of the bishops, it was resolved to pursue the annulment of the marriage as defective in form before the diocesan officialty in the first instance, and afterward before the metropolitan authority.
The price has been definitely fixed, the house paid for and bought, the annulment of the contract cannot be allowed.
The price has been definitely fixed, the slave has been paid for and delivered; no annulment of the bargain can now take place.
Their annulment was asked for, for experience has shown that they have been productive of little good, and that the province had not need of so great rigor as they contain.
The punishment may be very serious: the annulment of the examination, which may sometimes mean the loss of a whole year's schooling, the repetition of that year's course.
Again, there was another aspect from which to view the annulment of the Connecticut Intestate Law.
Its annulment would render worthless many past and present land-titles.
On the day appointed for the examination of the petition for the annulment of marriage, the local judge summons both parties or their solicitors.
Post-Annulment Afferent, the city bus cramps to the curb and brakes through Solipsistic muteness with an exhaltation startled and choking [People are play-things in one's reality!
The logical and practical consequences of the Wilson programme would have been the public annulment of the Pact of London; it must have been so for us to understand the principles on which we could enter upon peace negotiations.
We therefore could not exercise extreme pressure on Germany, as we were unable to effect the annulment of those treaties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annulment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
