"invalidate a contract" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to make a contract legally void or nullified. Example: The company was able to invalidate the contract with their client due to a breach of terms.
In that same vein, failure to satisfy a promise regarding the quality or type of good would also invalidate a contract as failing to meet its warranty, though the warranty was required to be expressly communicated.
Personally, he believed that if he spent time in a mental institution, he could obtain "crazy papers," as he called them, documents that would invalidate a contract a Mafia promoter had induced him to sign.
When evaluating the reasonableness of any agreement placing a restraint on alienation, courts should be reluctant to invoke common law principles disfavoring restraints to invalidate a bargained for contract freely agreed to by the parties.
Mr. Bart says that it is "a simple case," since Mrs. Greenfield signed away all her rights to the group's recording earnings in her divorce settlement and thereby invalidated a 1963 contract signed by the Ronettes.
[ 24 ] See Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, 64 (1905) (holding that a state's police power did not enable it to limit the working hours of bakers); see also Adair v. United States, 208 U.S. 161, 175 76 (1908) (using Fifth Amendment "liberty of contract" rationale to invalidate a statute protecting railroad unions).
The same public policy should invalidate any contract of insurance against the civil punishment that punitive damages represent.
A divorce could invalidate a will.
Measurement error can falsely invalidate a correct (complex mechanistic) model.
If Yao refuses to abide by the rules, the penalties are dire, including unspecified fines, expulsion from China's national team and an attempt by China to invalidate all contracts signed by Yao overseas.
It invalidates any contract to which an illegal immigrant was party.
Idiosyncratic flaws can also invalidate an RCT.
