null and void

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Adjective

null and void (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, law) Invalid, cancelled, unenforceable.
   • 1989, John Malcolm William Bean, From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England, page 212:

     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'.

   • 1999, The New York Times Biographical Service, volume 30, page 1518:

     […] 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!

   • 2009, My Last Cruise, Alexander Habersham, →ISBN, page 35:

     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.

Translations

invalid, cancelled, unenforceable

• Arabic: لَاغٍ وَبَاطِل m (lāḡin wabāṭil)
• Dutch: van nul en gener waarde, nietig (nl)
• Finnish: mitätön (fi), pätemätön (fi)
• French: nul et non avenu (fr)
• German: null und nichtig (de) n
• Greek: άκυρος (el) (ákyros)
• Hungarian: érvénytelen (hu)
• Indonesian: batal demi hukum
• Italian: nullo (it)
• Latin: irritus
• Norwegian: død og maktesløs
• Polish: nieważny (pl), nieprawomocny (pl)
• Romanian: nul și neavenit (ro)
• Spanish: nulo e inválido