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Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists.

rce. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is no…

That which is all-pervading or all-comprehensive; hence, the Deity. [R.] Omniety formed nullity into an essence. Sir T. Browne.

ity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est or, What is it " The degree of nullity and quiddity." Bacon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

aintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity. Macaulay.