annulment

基本解釋

Ten of the 19 presidential candidates are calling for the election’s annulment.
19位總統(tǒng)候選人中，10位倡導(dǎo)廢除大選。
Under the French civil code, an annulment can be granted “if there was a mistake about the person or the essential qualities of the person”.
根據(jù)法國民法，“如果當(dāng)事人或當(dāng)事人基本品質(zhì)存在欺騙行為”，婚姻關(guān)系可被取消。
The judge, said Ségolène Royal, the former Socialist presidential candidate, would never have agreed to the annulment had a case about false virginity been brought by a woman.
社會黨前任總統(tǒng)候選人賀雅爾(Ségolène Royal)表示，如果關(guān)于謊稱童貞的訴訟由女方提出，法官一定不會同意取消婚姻關(guān)系。

The court later sealed the documents, leaving the legal cause of their annulment a mystery.
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The Clark County Family Court granted the annulment two days after the couple tied the knot.
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According to an IRS ruling, if an annulment is retroactive, the couple was never married.
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The annulment of a contract or marriage is an official declaration that it is invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.