Why, there never was such a bond given, and any bond that is given under duress, by compulsion, not having the foundation of a statute, is absolutelynull and void.
He reserves in his own breast the power to declare that contract null and void, because in his judgment the contractor has not done his duty.
It now followed that the King's marriage, concluded on the strength of that dispensation, was declared by the Archbishop's court at Canterbury null and void, and invalid from the beginning.
The conduct of the Queen and her government, without whose help ecclesiastical authority would have beennull and void, had a result that extended far beyond her time: men began to inquire into the claims of the temporal power.
The King would not forego the satisfaction of punishing by arrest a number of members who were peculiarly hateful to him; he declared the protestation null and void, and struck it out of the clerks' book with his own hand.
The Queen was advised simply to revert to Edward VI's regulations, and to declare all things null and void that had been enacted under Mary, mainly on the ground that they had been enacted in violation of legal forms.
It was asked that if peace were proclaimed, matters should return to the previous state and the capitulation should be null and void.
By another edict, dated January 8, all the legal causes and suits which had been tried before the cabildo and its provisor were declared null and void.
Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states, is to-day null and void, precisely as is every one against negroes.
Coke declared an Act of Parliament against Magna Charta was nulland void.
If he appoints to them, they shall be null and declared void; and the fiscal shall advise concerning them.
In case you shall have disposed of such encomiendas, I order that such allotment be null and of no effect.
He asserted that the pending measure destroyed what he called the sovereignty of the States, and he even went so far as to say that it was the same as if you said that all State legislation is null and void.
Sir, the pending measure is in no respect destructive of any rights of the States; nor does it in any sense say that all State legislation is null and void.
Here they decide that, if he has had carnal knowledge of the second, the betrothal with the first becomes null and void.
He sold his assent to its demands for heavy subsidies, and when he had pocketed the money coolly declared the statutes he had sanctioned null and void.
The king's grant and letters, the Parliament answered with perfect truth, were legally null and void: their serfs were their goods, and the king could not take their goods from them but by their own consent.
This revelation is nevertheless rendered null by the man's conviction that the vision was merely such "stuff as dreams are made on.
As Lucullus continued to make honorary gifts and to distribute lands just as if he were still in office, Pompeius declared all the acts performed by his predecessor subsequent to his own arrival null and void.
The law as to the domain of Capua and the other laws issued by Caesar as consul had been constantly described by them as null and void, and an opinion had been expressed in the senate as early as Dec.
The Irish and the English joyfully welcomed him, and the Irish Parliament met at once and proclaimed him viceroy, formally declaring the acts of the Lancastrian Parliament at Coventry null and void so far as they concerned Ireland.
His lightest words were sufficient to render null and void the most important Act of Parliament, his orders were reverenced and obeyed by a vast majority of his countrymen.
Under the name of an ordinance, it declares null and void, within the State, all the revenue laws of the United States.
She will, we must suppose, pass a law of her legislature, declaring the several acts of Congress usually called the tariff laws null and void, so far as they respect South Carolina, or the citizens thereof.
Upon this principle, the Congress of the United States, in 1798, declarednull and void the treaty of alliance between the United States and France, though it professed to be a perpetual alliance.
The national council pronounced them guilty of fraud and deception and declared the treaty null and void, as having been made without authority, and asked permission to send on a delegation authorized to arrange all differences.
Synod, is null and void if it be not grounded on God's word in Scripture and Tradition.
This was called nullification because it made a law null and void.
The Presbytery, after hearing him, resolved to declare his license null and void, and in the end he had to appeal to the Assembly.
I have shown that these influences are almost null in democratic countries; they must therefore be artificially created, and this can only be accomplished by associations.
No sooner had he reached the Tuscan port than he addressed a letter to each of the five principal sovereigns of Europe, declaring that his last acts were just as much null and void as all his earlier ones.
Then, after blessing and embracing his sons, the venerable monarch wrote to the Emperor of Austria, protesting that all that he did was done under constraint, and that his obligations were null and void.
In the midst of the French regiments that garrisoned Berlin, the King wrote orders pronouncing York's conventionnull and void, and ordering York himself to be tried by court-martial.
The marriage with the king was declared to have been null and void from the beginning, and on the 23rd of May, the archbishop sent to London the welcome news that the long matter was at an end.
Being a vote that in itself was null and void, it was to be treated as not having been given.
His name is recorded as having voted, but it is a vote that at the time was null and void.
When the constitutional amendment was adopted and slavery abolished, all these statutes became null and void, because they were all passed in aid of slavery, for the purpose of maintaining and supporting it.
The law of the States is now the only rule applicable to the subjects placed under his control, and that is completely displaced by the clause which declares all interference of State authority to be null and void.
