Nullity of a previous marriage must be established by canonical process (Canons 1986 sqq.
In emergency one may expose a Sacrament tonullity by taking a course that is less safe for the Sacrament, but safer for the subject, relying on the axiom that the Sacraments are for men, and not men for the Sacraments.
This is especially true when there is a conflict between the internal and the external forums on account of the inability to establish juridically the nullity of the invalid marriage.
The intention not to do what the Church does was the chief cause of the nullity of Anglican Orders; (b) subjectively, the intention must be at least virtual, so as to ensure a deliberate act.
But if nullity is due to a merely ecclesiastical impediment, the impediment probably ceases in cases of most grave inconvenience when the nullity is known to only one spouse and the dispensation cannot be obtained at once.
Laws that make an act voidable or rescindable do not irritate before declaration of nullity by a judge.
In Baptism, Confirmation, Extreme Unction, and Orders, it would seem on account of the danger of nullity to be a serious sin to exclude all physical simultaneity between matter and form (e.
There is a serious sin, however, in other cases, because one is either exposing the Sacrament to nullity or is refusing, contrary to a serious command of the Church, to seek a dispensation.
Nullity was even declared in one instance[1429] "because the testamentary guardians who had consented were appointed by a will which turned out to be invalid because attested by only one witness.
Give the world thy measure, say thy word, reveal thy nullity or thy capacity.
Otherwise I should have so easily believed in my own nullity and in the insignificance of all my efforts.
All theories of the nullity of the individual, all pantheistic and materialist conceptions, are now but so much forcing of an open door, so much slaying of the slain.
In the dull tranquillity that succeeded, in the nullity of the present, the past would rise up in glowing colours, and the remembrance of it become the more importunate.
It is certain that this chapter speaketh not of a total nullity of vows ab initio, but of a relaxation, or disannulling of them by superiors.
Because that the ministry which is a nullity to the receiver, (that is, God will punish him as a usurper,) may yet perform those ministerial acts which are no nullities to the church.
So that I see not that their calling is a nullity through defect of any thing of absolute necessity to its being and validity; though it be many ways irregular and sinful.
It is a nullity reputatively when the person is naturally incapable of self-obligation, as in infancy, when reason is not come to so much maturity as to be naturally capable of such a work; I say naturally incapable, for the reasons following.
All men confess that private vows bind; and the nullity of the imposer's authority, maketh them but private vows.
The nullity of an oath ab initio, is quando realiter vel reputative non juravimus; when really or reputatively we did not swear.
And having not determined whether one or more, it followeth that the ordination of one sole lawful ordainer is no nullity on that account because it is but one, unless somewhat else nullify it.
Neglected by her husband, left by her children, a nullity in society, then piety becomes her one and last resource.
Seven long days and nights have been spent in ransacking the volumes of the Moniteur and the Official Bulletin in order to prove the nullity of His Majesty the Emperor's first marriage.
Conybeare has satisfied me that it is needless to offer any further systematic exposure of the nullity of his treatise, with which I had dealt at some length in The Literary Guide.
This includes any Pair of Premisses, of which one is a Nullity and the other an Entity, and which contain Like Eliminands.
If they are a Nullity and an Entity, we examine their Eliminands, in order to see whether they are Like or Unlike.
Monsignor Gamba del Zoppo was a worthy man who played no part at the Papal Court, whose nullity indeed had become a byword at the Vatican.
Johann of Bohemia's second son, come to the Kaisership thereupon, Johann's eldest Nullity being omitted.
Only the husband and his heirs can enforce the nullity of the acts executed by his wife without proper authorization.
An action for nullity of marriage can be maintained on the following grounds: 1.
A marriage is void from the time its nullity is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction if either party thereto was under the age of eighteen at the time it was concluded.
A marriage which has been declared a nullity has, if contracted in good faith, the civil effects of a marriage so far as the parties themselves and their children are concerned.
It was of primary importance to remove Cato, who made no secret of his conviction as to the nullity of all the Julian laws, and who was a man to act as he thought.
And they all play them very well here, though the hero and heroine do certainly exhibit something of that curious nullity which has been objected to the heroes nearly always, the heroines too frequently, of the later prose novels.
And of course the whole idea of coercing the Imperial Government, even had it ever been entertained, was openly reduced to nullity when the foreign Powers interfered for the suppression of the rebellion.
It will be remembered that, when the proclamation was issued, it was confessed by President Lincoln to be a nullitybeyond the limit within which it could be enforced by the Federal troops.
It is not necessary here to discuss the question of the validity or nullity of the bonds.
That constitution, moreover, was directly opposed to the Social Contract in setting up what it called representative democracy, for representative democracy was just what Rousseau steadily maintained to be a nullity and a delusion.
To give it such a construction as will bring it to a mere nullity would violate the strongest injunctions of common-sense and decorum, and yet that appears to me to be the effect of the construction adopted by the committee.
A government that relies on thirteen independent sovereignties for the means of its existence, is a solecism in theory, and a mere nullity in practice.
By all which it appears, there is a nullity in the power as moral, being so very opposite to the revealed will of God.
A legitimacy in each of these must go to the making of a moral power; and an illegitimacy in any of these is an illegitimacy in the very being and constitution, and so a nullity to the power as moral, a making it of no authority.
The nullityof any act, inconsistent with the constitution, is produced by the declaration that the constitution is the supreme law.
The supremacy of constitutional laws of the union, and the nullity of state laws inconsistent with such laws of the union, are principles of the constitution of the United States.
Their faces were sallow and without expression, their manner was correct to the point of absolute nullity of character, they moved as automata.
And thereupon a hideous persuasion of his own nullity and emptiness took hold of Laurence.
As once before, in this same room, his individuality seemed to sink away from him, while a horrible sense of his own nullity and nothingness prevailed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nullity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
