Void
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
That which has no force or effect. "Void" is often loosely used in varied meanings, and applied indiiferently to a thing which has no force or effect, and is an absolute nullity, or to that which by reason of some inherent vice or defect, may be adjudged void by a court when the question is presented to it; 214 111. 395; often used in the sense of "voidable" (a. v.) 44 Pa. St. 15.