31. Veruovic's testimony is certain to trigger more argument about the legal validity of the indictment and the police investigation. 32. In essence, President Mahinda Rajapaksa acted without legal authority to remove Bandaranayake, eroding the sacking of its legal validity . 33. Preval says lawmakers'recent vote to extend the term indefinitely until unscheduled elections in the future had no legal validity . 34. While his father's marriage had been disbanded under Islamic law, that divorce had no legal validity in the Netherlands. 35. It has been abolished in many Islamic countries, but still holds its legal validity in the secular country of India. 36. The Beaumont Society said most countries in the 44-nation Council of Europe already recognize the legal validity of sex changes. 37. Other scholars suggest " Saptapadi " and regionally customary wedding rituals, not consummation, defines legal validity of a Hindu marriage. 38. Spain's attempts to persuade other European powers on the legal validity of the " Inter caetera " were never successful. 39. His entry was delayed until 1966 by the Habsburg crisis, in which the legal validity of his declaration was denied. 40. You're citing a non-prominent sociologist against multiple heavyweight legal figures on the subject of the legal validity of an international treaty?