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"nullity" sounds like a made-up word. It sounds like something the Knights that say "Ni" would ask for when they have enough shrubberies
I mean, all words are made up, but yeah, the whole legal profession is chock full of needlessly flowery language that's intended to keep normal people from feeling like they can ask too many questions
That said, I'm happy to fight alongside those elitist creeps if they're fighting against fascism. Once that's taken care of we can talk about replacing all their stupid bar associations with actual public agencies to bring some (small-d) democratic oversight to their little clubhouses.
I've spent some time reading legal material, and I'd say that most of the legal jargon exists because common English terms aren't fully-defined. That's fine for everyday speech, but not when one is talking about whether-or-not something is legal.
So, for example, take mens rea. That's Latin for "guilty mind". Could you come up with some kind of common-language equivalent? Yeah, probably. You could maybe say "intent to act wrongly" or something like that. But there is a lot of precisely-defined legal doctrine around mens rea, and using the term makes it immediately clear that you're talking about that, and not a more-casual meaning.
Generally-speaking, Latin isn't in vogue these days, isn't more Latin being added, but there will still be phrases, even though they're in English, that have that same sort of precise meaning and probably aren't the phrase one would use if one was just trying to give a high-level overview to someone who isn't familiar with the doctrine.
It's legal jargon; half of it sounds made up.