Ultra Vires Definition

ultrə vīrēz, ultrə virēz
adjective
Beyond the legal power or authority of a person, corporation, etc.
Webster's New World
In excess of, or outside of powers; that which is beyond a corporation’s or an agency’s authorized power. A corporation’s ultra vires activity may lead to its forfeiting its charter of incorporation.
Webster's New World Law
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phrase

(law) Beyond the legal power or authority of a person or body.

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Origin of Ultra Vires

  • Latin “beyond the power"

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Ultra Vires Sentence Examples

  • These arguments are based on the UK duties being " ultra vires ".

  • However studentsâ unions are campaigning less and less on international issues, passing them off as Ultra Vires or not their role.

  • I am therefore of opinion that the adjudicator made an intra vires error rather than one which rendered his decision ultra vires.

  • A few months later Thomas Cranmer, who had been one of those to discuss sympathetically Luther's works in the little circle at Cambridge, and who believed the royal supremacy would tend to the remedying of grave abuses and that the pope had acted ultra vires in issuing a dispensation for the king's marriage with Catherine, was induced by Henry to succeed Warham as archbishop of Canterbury.

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