2011年3月28日 · The difference between null and void as term for nothing stems from their place in physical space. A void is nothing but takes up space; null is nothing at all. In other words, you could measure a void but null offers nothing to measure. Void also means canceled or deleted and, again, programming has a special meaning for the term void. Here ...

2017年5月25日 · A contract whose object is illegal, such as murder, is void, or null and void. An otherwise valid contract is not made void by the subsequent performance or non-performance of the parties. A change in the law may void a contract in whole or in part, such as a law prohibiting the sale of a particular commodity.

2011年11月25日 · A check with VOID written on it will not be processed. The difference may be subtle, but there is a difference. 0 represents an integer in the set of all integers (called the set Z in mathematics) NULL is not an integer, and it could represent the absence of things that aren't even numbers. A NULL and VOID Check for example. A NULL Marriage.

Null is not just a computer science word. It's used in other context, for instance the stock phrase "null and void" - meaning that the referrent no longer has any effect. Nor is NULL in CS necessarily zero: it's a pointer value that can't point to a valid address, so it could be implemented as e.g. all ones in binary - and that would be IMHO a ...

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2011年4月12日 · (ii) From the first meaning ("bets are null and void") is derived a sense of all existing agreements are cancelled: that there is a return to the status quo ante, because even existing bets are not honoured (although the stake is returned). Examples of this usage are hard to tell apart from the meaning in the next paragraph, so I have put them ...

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2014年2月28日 · Legally it might even be a problem. What is a proprietor of a company is a party in a contract, and the company is sold to a proprietor of the opposite sex. Does that mean all contracts in which the proprietor was a party are null and void until the sex has changed? A quick check seems to confirm we are talking about India.

There is no difference in core meaning, and even the connotational penumbrae overlap a lot. It's mostly about the attitude you're trying to convey; and this is going to depend more on each reader's actual experience with the words than with any broad consensus.

This is a guess, but in old hand-written legal documents where paper/velum was a a premium, you couldn't afford to format a document with spaces and paragraphs and such to increase readability.