When Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln found that his efforts to reform his clergy were rendered nugatory by appeals to Rome, where the offenders could always purchase immunity, he visited Innocent IV.
It is easy to imagine other tricks by which shrewd and experienced inquisitors could save themselves the trouble of admitting the accused to even the nugatory form of defence to which alone he was entitled.
Descartes was perhaps the first who saw that definitions of words, already as clear as they can be made, arenugatory or impenetrable.
The right to appoint such courts necessarily involves in it the right of defining their powers, and determining the rules by which their judgment shall be regulated; and the grant of the former of those rights is nugatory without the latter.
This system is undermined and rendered nugatory by 1st art.
Washington said of it: "The Confederation appears to be little more than a shadow without the substance, and Congress a nugatory body.
In short, the scheme is nugatory and impracticable; the inaptness of the project is only equalled by the vanity of the attempt.
This called forth the opposition of Fox, who objected to the motion as nugatory and productive of unnecessary delay.
As for the appeal allowed from the decisions of the board of control to the privy-council, that was only the appeal from the aggressor transformed into the character of a judge, and was therefore in the highest degree nugatory and ridiculous.
Moreover, the securities which the bill contained were not so nugatory as they had been represented.
Without this proper exertion of power, the blockade would have been rendered nugatory by the advantage thus taken of the neutral flag.
It was strange that, in the very act of conferring a title, the minister should have excused himself for not having conferred a higher one, by representing all titles, on such an occasion, as nugatory and superfluous.
When they inquired how numbers constituted the world, their answer was in general only a nugatory exercise of an unbridled fancy.
And did not Congress have the power "to render nugatory all State laws and proceedings under which free men were to be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law"?
There is an irresistible tide of affairs in a new country which makes such a disposition of its future rights nugatory and vain.
The Test Act continued in force, though rendered practically nugatoryafter the beginning of George II.
From these articles in the State constitutions many things were attempted to be transplanted into our new Constitution, which would either have been nugatory or improper.
He doubtless obtained it with the samenugatory result.
A refusal to prolong the term of the ultimatum would render nugatory the proposals made by the Austro-Hungarian Government to the Powers, and would be in contradiction to the very bases of international relations.
The works of the metaphysicians how nugatory with respect to this faculty.
When a clergyman's connection with a church had been duly dissolved, he ceased to be pastor of the church and an arrangement with the parish to retain his relation as pastor of such church was nugatory and void.
The Ambassadors of all the Powers, including Germany, protested against this step, which became practically nugatorywhen Turkey entered into the war.
As far as the eye reaches everything is dead and nugatory in its colour, and rigid and inanimate in form: a plastic landscape, full of style but apparently devoid of soul.
I have been obliged, therefore, to a nugatory interference, merely to prevent the affairs of the United States from standing still.
The use of the mail was declared by Mr. Morris of Ohio to be “a reserved right, with which no law ought to interfere, and not a governmental machine which Congress can withdraw at pleasure or render nugatory by the acts of its officers.
This would be nugatory unless it implied a power to repair these roads themselves, or compel others to do it.
Here are still two things capable of being fished up from the sea of nugatory matter; and meditated on by readers, till the following Books open.
As regards the travelling expenses and the other items, the provision of everything necessary for you by my own self will again not render nugatory your mean acquaintance with me.
