annulment of judgment. A retroactive obliteration of a judicial decision, having the effect of restoring the parties to their pretrial positions. • Types of annulment include reversal and vacation. See REVERSE; VACATE(1).
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annulment ([schwa]-n[schwa]l-m[schwa]nt), n. 1. The act of nullifying or making void; VOIDANCE. 2. A judicial or ecclesiastical declaration that a marriage is void. • An annulment establishes that the marital status never existed. So annulment and dissolution of marriage (or divorce) are fundamentally different: an annulment renders a marriage void from the beginning, while dissolution