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Redundancy Entry 844 / 1605 60-second read

Null and void vs. Null / Void

Legal doublet.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

“The contract is null and void.”

✓ Correct

“The contract is void.”

The ruleii

Legal idiom OK; tighten in prose.

Legal doublets often survived from Norman French + English pairings.

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

Legal vs prose."

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