If this requirement is not met, the form may be deemed null and void.
Any such attempt to assign shall be null and void.
Thus the Assembly treated the Family Compact as null and void.
In 1865 President Johnson appointed as provisional governor William Lewis Sharkey (1797-1873), who had been chief justice of the state in 1832-1850, and a convention which assembled on the 14th of August recognized the "destruction" of slavery and declared the ordinance of secession null and void.
Charles thereupon declared his abdication to have been made under duress and therefore null and void.
