Word: null
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malan's top lieutenants, sat beside the "High Court" president, listened tensely as he read the decision. But two days later, the Cape Province branch of the Supreme Court struck back, declared that the "High Court" was no court at all, and that its pronouncements were null & void. Dutifully on hand again. Swart sat through a seven-minute ordeal while the anti-Malan decision was read. When it was over, he grabbed his hat and rushed out into a pouring rain...
...away' within a year by the way of 'nullity' [grounds upon which the courts may declare a lawful marriage to be null & void] because she was found to be subject to 'recurrent fits of insanity or epilepsy,' he would be free to marry again at once, with not a word of reproach from Portugal Street [the Church Times's address] . . . But where is 'Our Lord's authority' for this? How dare such loose thinkers lecture decent people . . . on lack of 'principle...
Last week five black-robed judges (three of them appointed by Prime Minister Malan) unanimously said no. Malan's action was "null and void." Said Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres: "To say that the Union of South Africa is not a sovereign state simply because Parliament hasn't the power to amend the Constitution is to state a manifest absurdity . . . It would be surprising . . . to be told that the great and powerful country, the United States, is not sovereign and independent because its Congress cannot pass any law it pleases...
...Hatterr decides to get into the swami racket himself. But just as he and his partner are about to put on their big show for the gullible, he learns what his own billing is to be: that of a saintly eunuch who has surgically rendered "his id and libido null and void." Much attached to his id and libido, Hatterr scoots off into the brush...
...general agreement" with Bradley and George Marshall, thus conceding that the Republicans had just about abandoned their hope that the hearings would find the Joint Chiefs siding with MacArthur against the President. Democratic Chairman Richard Russell put it up to the committee and the committee, by a null vote, decided nothing doing: it would keep going down its list of witnesses in turn...