null and void en · ADJ
Meanings
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(idiomatic, not-comparable) Invalid, cancelled, unenforceable.
All retainings by indenture before that date were declared null and void 'other than to be the household servant or officer or of his [the lord's] council for lawful service done or to be done'.
1989, John Malcolm William Bean, From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England, page 212:[…] on at least a dozen occasions, the Supreme Court itself […] had spent the last three decades scrutinizing and parsing, expanding and restricting and harmonizing and distinguishing a decision that had been null and void all along. Who knew!
1999, The New York Times Biographical Service, volume 30, page 1518:The "Cape Malay", a people of whom I had never heard before our arrival, grasped eagerly at the demoralizing doctrine of a plurality of wives, and crowded around the sacred men who could uncurb the bit of sensuality and render null and void the restraining laws of bigamy.
2009, My Last Cruise, Alexander Habersham, →ISBN, page 35:
Translations (20)
it nullo (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · pl nieprawomocny (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · fi pätemätön (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · nl nietig (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · de null und nichtig (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · fi mitätön (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · no død og maktesløs (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · he בטל ומבוטל (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · fr caduc (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · pl nieważny (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · es nulo e inválido (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · nl van nul en gener waarde (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · la irritus (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · ar لَاغٍ وَبَاطِل (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · hu érvénytelen (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · ro nul și neavenit (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · es nulo e írrito (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · fr nul et non avenu (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · id batal demi hukum (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable) · el άκυρος (invalid, cancelled, unenforceable)