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of no effect



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On Thursday, a judicial review found the instruction to be unlawful and of no effect.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2022

“Statements relating to the Armenian claims … are of no effect to us,” Erdogan said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2022

“This means that the order in council to which it led was also unlawful, void and of no effect and should be quashed.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2019

The unanimous, strongly-worded Supreme Court judgment declared his order to suspend Parliament "void and of no effect."

From Fox News • Sep. 24, 2019

Such a commission is of no effect, in our courts of law, unless emanating from some government recognized by the Government of the United States.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.