Word: voided
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...statement issued yesterday, Feeney said "any ecclesiastical penalties, such as excommunication, imposed without stating . . . the charges preferred . . . are void, and are subject to immediate appeal to the highest court in the church, and to the Pope himself. This appeal, Father Feeney will immediately make...
...life the place of a very beloved living being ... I can hardly find-in a language which I have acquired only from books-the words of expressing the importance you have gained throughout this last decade . . . When, during certain periods, your paper could not be obtained, there was a void in our life, the world was shut...
...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...
...action in chancery court, the Inland Revenue claimed that an improperly dated agreement signed by the tenth Duke of Devonshire just before his death last year was void; instead of going to a nonprofit fund, and thus escaping death duties, the collection should go to swell the duke's other assets (to ?3,000,000). Since the 80% death duty on the whole estate would leave the family only ?600,000-less than the value of the collection alone-the heirs would have to sell the Chatsworth art and break up the collection. Said the court: "I cannot refrain...