Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ipswich- which was of only a few days duration- that is, if she was really a resident of London and had just skipped out into the country in an effort to dodge reporters, then that tiny but grim legal point could make the whole divorce fishy and perhaps void...
Before Federal Judge John P. Barnes, the high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis argued that the contract was void, that the agreement was against public policy, that the court did not have jurisdiction anyway...
...support their brief that the contract was void the legalists cited the Contract Labor Law of 1885 which voids contracts entered into with aliens prior to entry into the U. S. Revised in 1917, the law permits U. S. appearances of professional actors, artists and singers, also entry of fair & exposition performers contracted by an alien exhibitor. What Judge Barnes had to decide this week is whether the statute bars such contracts secured by a U. S. promoter...
...Tennessee officials discovered after hunting for legal means to void the marriage, the youngsters had put one over on the State. Since the parents approved, nothing could be done about it. Hastily drafted and passed by the State Senate was a bill setting the marriageable age for Tennessee females...
...Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void the Dominion of Canada's legislative measures for unemployment insurance, minimum wages, limitation of working hours and regulation of marketing: the "Canadian New Deal." These measures were originally introduced by Canada's unpopular Old Dealer Richard Bedford Bennett in his vain effort to escape disaster at the polls...