Oliver Winchester's firm would maintain a nominal existence until 1935, when Western Cartridge merged with its subsidiary to form Winchester-Western Company; in 1944 the firearms and ammunition operations would be reorganized as the Winchester-Western Division of Olin Industries.

With the abolition of the poor law system in 1930 the parishes had only a nominal existence.

Having only nominal existence within a municipal borough, the civil parishes were merged in 1949.

Between 1943 and 1945, when it was disbanded to allow the formation of the second British Twelfth Army, its nominal existence was used to create the impression of a standing threat to the Balkans.

The separate parishes continued with nominal existence.

The liberty existed until October 1900, although it continued to have nominal existence as a civil parish until 1921.

The parish had only nominal existence after 1907 when the Merton Parish Council was abolished and the parish formed the Merton Urban District.

In 1802 St. Alban's Abbey, which until then had retained a nominal existence, was formally dissolved under Napoleon.

Parish councils were not formed in urban areas, and the only function of the parish was to elect guardians to Poor Law Unions; with the abolition of the Poor Law system in 1930 the parishes had only a nominal existence.

For example, when the community of Georgetown ceased to have even a nominal existence independent of Washington, D.C., the streets in Georgetown were renamed as an extension of Washington's street-naming convention.