Annulment

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  • noun. An act of annulling.
  • noun. The invalidation of a marriage, as for nonconsummation, effected by means of a declaration stating that the marriage was never valid.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of annulling; specifically, the act of making void retrospectively as well as prospectively: as, the annulment of a marriage (as distinguished from the granting of a divorce).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act or instance of annulling.
  • noun. A state of having been annulled.
  • noun. An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract
  • noun. A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
  • noun. Total destruction.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the state of being cancelled or annulled
  • noun. (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)
  • noun. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
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