Marriage can be declared null and void on application by one of the spouses or by the public prosecutor on various grounds, such as lack of form or affinity, but the consequences of such nullity approximate those of divorce: the children are not necessarily illegitimate.
Again, this is funny and wily, but beneath it runs the dread of nullity.
Declarations of nullity, however, should not be confused with divorce nor be thought of as a substitute for divorce.
It smoothed down many of the play's sharp edges almost to the point of nullity.
When they got their decree of nullity, however, "We realised we had been wrong.
In depression you don't even have that, it's just that awful feeling of nullity".
The Family Code currently provides three options for spouses who want to get out of their marriage: legal separation, annulment or a declaration of nullity of marriage.
Twenty years later, he was able to obtain the decree of nullity that enabled him to legitimize his children by Francesca Armosino, his longtime companion.
A declaration of nullity requires a court to find that the marriage was never valid to begin with because of factors like fraud.
The movie is dark-toned and rather furtive, its emotional transactions attenuated to the point of nullity.
As an adult, he said, he wanted to come to terms with "the intimate sense of nullity that an English childhood left me with".
