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🌀 Emptiness of reality 😶 A sense of emptiness 📄 No legal effect
voidness

voidness

8.4
A situation when a document or agreement has no legal force
  • noun
  • /ˈvɔɪdnəs/
  • Formal
translation icon : nulidad
  • The voidness of the agreement meant that neither party could enforce the terms legally.

Examples

  • The judge declared the contract to be in a state of voidness due to the illegal terms included.

  • Because of its voidness, the will was rendered invalid, and the estate was divided according to the previous document.

  • Less widely noticed, this article argues, is that anti-commodification norms help to justify certain contract law doctrines, like voidness for illegality.

    Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

nullity
vsvoidness
  • Formal
1 9.9

Something that has no legal force or effect

is the general name for the same state rather than the legal label
unenforceability
vsvoidness
  • Formal
8.8

A situation in which the law cannot make people follow a rule or contract

is legally invalid in itself rather than merely hard or impossible to enforce

Antonyms

validity
  • Formal
18 4.9

Legal force that makes a document or agreement binding

enforceability
  • Specialized
1 6.5

How easily a rule or agreement can be made to work by the courts

How Valid

validity
  • Formal
18 4.9
legitimacy
54 4.6
voidness
  • Formal
8.4
nullity
  • Formal
1 9.9

Surface Forms

voidness singular
voidnesses plural

Morphology

voidness = void (transparent) = void + ness

Direct nominalization of the adjective 'void' to indicate the state or quality of being void in a legal sense.

Etymology

Voidness comes from the word void (from Latin vacuus 'empty') and the suffix -ness. In law, 'void' came to mean 'empty of legal force', so voidness is the state of having no legal power or effect, a meaning you can remember like the word vacant.