The annulment of a contract or marriage is an official declaration that it is invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed. the annulment of the elections. Legal invalidation of a marriage. It announces the invalidity of a marriage that was void from its inception. It is to be distinguished from dissolution or divorce. To justify annulment, the marriage contract must have a defect (e.g., incompetence of one party because of age, insanity, or a preexisting marriage). Continued absence of one party may also justify annulment. Generally, annulment is easier if the marriage is unconsummated. Both secular law and Christian canon law have annulment procedures
An invalidation; a declaration of something, especially a marriage or legal contract, as being invalid