declare invalid

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The state filed suit against Hall last week, seeking an injunction to force her to stop issuing the licenses and declare invalid about 100 she had already issued.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2014

Of these Parliament would seem to be the weakest, for it cannot negative the proceedings of the other two; but either of these two can declare invalid what it has done.”

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Indeed, says the Supreme Court, Congress may make valid an invalid act passed by a territorial legislature as well as declare invalid a valid act passed by it.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford

And Sozomen: "It was a sacerdotal law, to declare invalid whatever was transacted beside the will of the Bishop of the Romans."

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

His first act on reaching his kingdom was to declare invalid the Constitution which had been granted in 1833 by William IV.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount