VOID MARRIAGE: One of two types of marriages that can be annulled. A void marriage is one that is void and invalid from its beginning. It is as though the marriage never existed and it requires no formality to terminate it.
Void Marriage
A void marriage is one which can never be legitimate. New York recognizes three types of marriages which are always void : incestuous marriages (DRL 5) , ...
The marriage must be a lawful marriage; for a void marriage does not entitle the hushand to the curtesy; as if a married man were to marry a second wife, the first being alive, he would not be entitled to the curtesy in such second wife's estate.
in effect, that the parties never were married, and at one time it absolved them from all obligations to each other. Today, however, statutes in some states have mitigated the results of annulment, e.g., by making children of the void marriage ...
 See also: Voidable, Wife, Were, Will, Witness
  
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