They are to be interpreted on the same principles, and to be regarded as void or voidable on the same grounds, with promises.
Laws that make an act voidable or rescindable do not irritate before declaration of nullity by a judge.
The defects that vitiate consent by taking away knowledge or choice render contracts either void or voidable (see 40-55).
Hence, if a wager is voidable in law, the winner may keep his gains until obliged by a judge to give them up, but the loser is not bound to pay, unless he confirms the wager.
Laws that make an act or contract voidable do not nullify, but only grant to the person concerned the right to attack validity before the courts.
By the law of Scotland the distinction between void and voidable marriages was never recognized, all marriages within the prohibited degrees being void ab initio.
Voidable wedlock in the sense here employed[286] thus disappears from the English law, except in those minor cases where "canonical" impediments are still recognized.
Marriages are voidable and may be annulled in the courts on the following grounds: A.
In case marriage was originally void or voidable by law.
Marriages of the clergy were not null and void, they were only voidable by proceedings which must be taken in the lifetime of the parties.
Voidable does not mean that the contract is illegal.
At present the annulment of voidable contracts is still governed by the enactment of 1852.
If, on the other hand, a contract contained a representation which was fraudulent, and which misled the party to whom it was made, the contract would be voidable on the same principles as if the representation had been made beforehand.
I suppose the contract would be binding if the statements touching the contents were honest, and voidable if they were fraudulent.
The offspring of voidable or invalid marriages may be made legitimate by application to the courts.
Of the infant's contracts voidable at common law there were two kinds.
A treaty may be terminated by the simple act of denunciation when this right of denunciation is specified in the treaty itself, or when the treaty is of such a nature as to be voidable by an act of one of the parties.
On the other hand, spousals contracted between infancy and the "ripe" years of twelve or fourteen are voidable by either spouse when that age is reached.
By the teaching of the common lawyers a widow of nine years of age at her husband's death could claim dower, though the marriage would have been voidable by her at the age of puberty.
Thereafter a marriage formed without consent of parent or guardian, and even in opposition to it, was held to be legal; but it was "voidable so long as either of the parties to it was below the age at which it could be consummated.
Contracts are also divided into void, voidable and unenforceable contracts.
A voidable contract is one which is good until the option of avoiding it is availed of by the party who has the option.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voidable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
