Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being null.
- noun Something that is null, especially an act having no legal validity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The state or quality of being null or void; want of force or efficacy; insignificance; nothingness.
- That which is null, void, invalid, or of no force or efficacy; a nonentity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.
- noun (Law) Nonexistence.
- noun That which is null.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being null, or
void , orinvalid . - noun law A
void act; adefective proceeding or one expressly declared bystatute to be a nullity. - noun mathematics A
corank .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)
- noun the state of nonexistence
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, to avoid the county recording fees, MERS claimed to hold the mortgages and notes technically, the mortgage and the note are separate, and it is the note that is required to foreclose -- without the note, the mortgage has been ruled by courts to be a "nullity" -- see Floyd Norris so that they could be traded without paying the fees and filing the paperwork.
L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part II: The Mother of All Frauds
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However, to avoid the county recording fees, MERS claimed to hold the mortgages and notes technically, the mortgage and the note are separate, and it is the note that is required to foreclose -- without the note, the mortgage has been ruled by courts to be a "nullity" -- see Floyd Norris so that they could be traded without paying the fees and filing the paperwork.
L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part II: The Mother of All Frauds
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However, to avoid the county recording fees, MERS claimed to hold the mortgages and notes technically, the mortgage and the note are separate, and it is the note that is required to foreclose -- without the note, the mortgage has been ruled by courts to be a "nullity" -- see Floyd Norris so that they could be traded without paying the fees and filing the paperwork.
L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part II: The Mother of All Frauds
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However, to avoid the county recording fees, MERS claimed to hold the mortgages and notes technically, the mortgage and the note are separate, and it is the note that is required to foreclose -- without the note, the mortgage has been ruled by courts to be a "nullity" -- see Floyd Norris so that they could be traded without paying the fees and filing the paperwork.
L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part II: The Mother of All Frauds
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However, to avoid the county recording fees, MERS claimed to hold the mortgages and notes technically, the mortgage and the note are separate, and it is the note that is required to foreclose -- without the note, the mortgage has been ruled by courts to be a "nullity" -- see Floyd Norris so that they could be traded without paying the fees and filing the paperwork.
L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part II: The Mother of All Frauds
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However, to avoid the county recording fees, MERS claimed to hold the mortgages and notes technically, the mortgage and the note are separate, and it is the note that is required to foreclose -- without the note, the mortgage has been ruled by courts to be a "nullity" -- see Floyd Norris so that they could be traded without paying the fees and filing the paperwork.
L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud, Part II: The Mother of All Frauds
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However, to avoid the county recording fees, MERS claimed to hold the mortgages and notes technically, the mortgage and the note are separate, and it is the note that is required to foreclose -- without the note, the mortgage has been ruled by courts to be a "nullity" -
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The US Supreme Court has ruled that a "mortgage" without the "note" is a "nullity" -- it does not convey the legal standing required to foreclose.
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It is mere fancy, it is a nullity, unless it be true, as I think it is, that it has been the source of great mischiefs to the world, in which case it cannot be termed a nullity, but something positively pernicious.
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a "nullity" -- on his left, another member nearly as old, but with a glimmer of intelligence.
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