He could not doubt for a moment the utter invalidity of Edwardine ordinations to the priesthood.
Crispi was compelled to resign office, although the judicial authorities upheld the invalidity of his early marriage, contracted at Malta in 1853, and ratified his subsequent union with Signora Barbagallo.
This is to assert the principle of the invalidity of all legislation conflicting with ecclesiastical interests and rules.
Oldage and invalidity pensions were not universal; they were made to apply, outside civil servants, to clerks and private officials only.
A universal scheme of old-age and invalidity insurance was before Parliament in 1921.