Any statute which proposes to do this is a mere nullity; it takes away no right, it confers none.

A government that relies on thirteen independent sovereignties for the means of its existence, is a solecism in theory, and a mere nullity in practice.

The two other Consuls were now mere nullities, even in appearance.

The "ordinances of secession" adopted by a portion (in most of them a very small portion) of their citizens were mere nullities.