Why are people still be allowed to annul an unconsummated marriage, even if the couple in question have had sex together many times before?
An 18th-century British law proposing to allow husbands to annul marriages to wives who had trapped them with "scents, paints, artificial teeth, false hair and iron stays", had no effect on women, who continued to clamour for the latest French skin creams.
If Tamil Nadu's right to claim water from the Periyar River stands annulled, and if Kerala is allowed to build a new reservoir further downstream, the two states may, in theory, have to negotiate as separate "sovereign" entities to determine how the water ought to be apportioned.
A Russian law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to Interfax, said Mr. Snowden would be allowed to continue on his journey even if the United States authorities had annulled his passport.
When the mayor of Wemmel, Christian Andries, presides over a town council meeting he is not allowed to utter a single French word, even to translate, or the business at hand may be annulled.
It also abolishes a law that allows a husband to annul his marriage if he learns that his wife was not a virgin when they married.
A French law court has allowed a Muslim man to annul his marriage on the ground that his wife was not a virgin on their wedding night.
But a more recent precedent is her motion, a year ago, to annul regulations to allow civil partnership ceremonies to be held in church - which had a rather frostier reception.
The claim in today's opinion indicated that giving elected officials "sole authority to decide" whether to defend an initiative in court might "allow public officials, through inaction, effectively to annul initiatives that they dislike," just isn't correct.
The ruling could strike down the entire process, allow it to continue or annul specific provisions.
