#nullification

• Archaic annihilation — An archaic and rare variant of the term annihilation, utilized in 19th-century legal, administrative, or philosophical texts to denote the act of destroying, nullifying, or reducing to zero an obligation, a treaty, or a structural entity. In an old conceptual sense, it represents the complete cancellation or transition into non-existence of a right or a state of affairs, through sovereign decision or natural degradation.