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en-wikipedia-org-7122		Annulment - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6262	740	59	Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.[1] Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning almost as if it had never taken place (though some jurisdictions provide that the marriage is only void from the date of the annulment; for example, this is the case in section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 in England and Wales).[2] In legal terminology, an annulment makes a void marriage or a voidable marriage null.[3] In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an annulment is properly called a "Declaration of Nullity", because according to Catholic doctrine, the marriage of baptized persons is a sacrament and, once consummated and thereby confirmed, cannot be dissolved as long as the parties to it are alive.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7122.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7122.txt