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Void

Having no legal effect from the start.  Thus, a void contract is invalid from the start of its purported closing (having no legal effect, it does not change the legal relationship between the parties involved).

See Voidable (compare).

Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary

Status of a statute, contract, or ruling that is determined to be invalid and unenforceable. (See also: voidable)

Definition provided by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.

August 19, 2010, 5:26 pm

 

"If an employer reviews a document reflecting the agreements reached in collective bargaining and the union surreptitiously substitutes a materially different contract document before both sides execute it, we think it clear that there has been a fraud in the execution of the contract and that the agreement reflected in the executed document is void ab initio and unenforceable by the union."

"A contract that is void ab initio is a nullity, for it is based on a promise for breach of which the law neither gives a remedy nor otherwise recognizes a duty of performance by the promisor."