The effect of a decree of nullity, broadly speaking, is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed.

They also ensured that canon law would be recognized within some spheres (e.g., church decrees of nullity in the area of marriage).

The provision in s. 11, Hindu Marriage Act about the decree of nullity is an additional provision.

On January 4, 1951 Karl initiated a process petitioning for an ecclesiastical decree of nullity; the case had not been resolved at his death.

Whereas, when a marriage is solemnized outside India, the matrimonial courts in India have no jurisdiction to grant a decree of nullity.

Here upon filing a petition by any one spouse before the Court of law a decree of nullity is passed declaring the marriage as null and void.

Is this enough, particularly in the case of the operated transsexual, remembering that proceedings for a decree of nullity must now be instituted within three years of the date of the marriage?

The Sacra Rota is responsible for normal appeals, including decrees of nullity for marriages, with the Apostolic Signatura being the administrative court of appeal and highest ecclesiastical court.

Now a Family Court can grant a decree of nullity of marriage or divorce at the first instance and the same would become final if no appeal is preferred within the period prescribed for the same.

Dominating its case load are petitions seeking the issuance of a decree of nullity, although it has jurisdiction to hear any other type of judicial and non-administrative case in any area of canon law.

As regards the marriage discipline and the grounds for decree of nullity of marriages, there are no material differences between the canon law of the Syrian Catholics and that of the Latin Catholics.

On 25 September 1613, and supported by the king, Essex obtained a decree of nullity of marriage against her husband, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and three months later, on 26 December, got her wish and married Carr.

He did make an attempt long ago, but it did not answer, and the poor lady obtained a decree of nullity in Rome: labour lost, alas, since she was led to the guillotine within five minutes of its delivery - virgin martyrs are always depicted carrying a palm, you know.

The decree of nullity may therefore be no more than a declaration that no marriage had ever come into being, i.e. it is void ab initio, or it may be equivalent to a decree of divorce, i.e., the marriage requires a decree to dissolve it.

When one spouse assails a marriage as void as bigamous but the respondent husband while admitting the first marriage takes the plea of death of first wife, it has been held the wife is entitled to a decree of nullity as the marriage must be held to be void.

Other issues occasioning the split were: Lefebvre's order that Society priests must accept the decrees of nullity handed down by diocesan marriage tribunals; the acceptance of new members into the group who had been ordained to the priesthood according to the revised sacramental rites of Pope Paul VI.

From the statement of objects and reasons for the Act, it is evident that the intention of the Legislature was only to obliterate gender discrimination and to do away with the procedural requirement of confirmation from the High Court in respect of decrees of nullity and divorce granted by the District Court.