void ab initio
Never legally existed
Void ab initio is a legal term meaning invalid from the beginning—as if the thing never existed.
A contract signed under fraud may be declared void ab initio, meaning it had no legal force from the moment it was created, not merely from when the fraud was discovered.
The court ruled the marriage void ab initio because one party was already married.
- unenforceableLacking legal force
- nullityComplete absence or invalidity
- rescissionFormal annulment of agreements
- ab initioFrom the beginning
- from the beginningSince the origin point
annulment · nonexistence · invalidation · illegality · nunc pro tunc · inception · bad faith · misrepresentation · unconscionability · legal fiction · statute · noncompliance · breach · due process · judiciary · litigation · adjudication · tainted
- null and voidnull, invalid, nonbinding, inoperative, nullification
void ab initiovalid
Legally or logically sound
legally binding · enforceable · operative · binding · legitimate
void ab initiovoidable
Capable of being nullified
ratifiable · curable · rescindable · annullable · confirmable