deriment nullities are absolute nullities and cannot be nullified

That's it, Wordwind. It's like falling down the rabbit hole:

"In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next."

http://www.snark.de/carroll/alice/alice1.html

You have just fallen down the lawyer's rabbit hole, Wordwind.

Happily, this gives me a chance to plug tsuwm's thread "the plasticity of words".