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be null and void

To be no longer valid, legitimate, or enforceable. This contract will be null and void immediately should either party fail to fulfill their obligations. He argued that the court's ruling is null and void because his civil liberties were violated before and during the trial. The employment contract is null and void due to the employee's continued appropriation of company equipment for personal gain.
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null and void

No longer valid, legitimate, or enforceable. This contract shall be rendered null and void immediately should either party fail to fulfill their obligations.
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null and void

Cliché without legal force; having no legal effect. The court declared the law to be null and void. The millionaire's will was null and void because it was unsigned.
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null and void

Canceled, invalid, as in The lease is now null and void. This phrase is actually redundant, since null means "void," that is, "ineffective." It was first recorded in 1669.
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ˌnull and ˈvoid

(formal) (of a legal agreement) no longer effective or valid: The contract was declared null and void.
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To limit the probability of erroneously rejecting any of [N.sub.0] = 100 true null hypotheses to the level [[alpha].sub.0] = 0.05, only those tests having p values smaller than [[alpha].sub.Walker] = 0.000513 would be regarded as significant according to this criterion.
(2) will yield relatively few rejections of true null hypotheses, the Walker criterion is quite strict since [[alpha].sub.Walker] [approximately equal to] [[alpha].sub.0] / N, which compromises the sensitivity of the procedure for detecting false null hypotheses.
Now we deal with the question of obtaining a normalized expression for a null normal l of a null hypersurface H [member of] F.
Let F = (([H.sub.u]),([h.sub.u]),([l.sub.u])) be a family of null hypersurfaces of the GRW space-time ([bar.M], [bar.g]) defined by (2) such that F is given by (7) and each of its members ([H.sub.u], [h.sub.u], [l.sub.u]) is conformal to a fixed null hypersurface (H, [gamma], l), where [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] for every parameter value of u.
where 0; for i = 1,2, ...,M0 is the direction of null. Our goal is to optimize the squared weighting error subject to the condition that
After sensor failure the radiation pattern is destroyed, which results in an increase of the SLL and displacement of null positions.
The effect of allowing for the possible presence of a null allele
Paternity test trios (mother, child and alleged father) in which a vWA null allele appeared to be segregating were selected.
The fitness function depends on the mean square error (MSE) between the desired array factor and estimated array factor given in Equation (6) and the null constraint error given in Equation (7).
For an arbitrary array, to put a null at a given angle [[theta].sub.i], we need [24],
Let [alpha] be a null Cartan curve in [E.sup.4.sub.1] Then [alpha] is congruent to an osculating curve of the first kind if and only if its third curvature [[kappa].sub.3](s) is equal to zero for each s.
Let us suppose [phi] = [phi](s) be a null W-curve in the space [E.sup.3.sub.1].
Speas (1994) proposed that the expression or otherwise of null subjects is determined by whether the [??] features in [I.sup.O] have some specification.
You may also have a case for a null value if you are working in a database and none of its values has a record.