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Home Dictionary Name: extra viresExtra vires
Extra vires, beyond powers. See ULTRA VIRES....
Ultra vires
Ultra vires [Lat.] (beyond the powers), said of a corporation or company when exceeding its authority. If the powers are given or acquired at common law or by custom or by charter, the corporation is a person at common law and may do anything which an ordinary person can do [Wenlock (Baroness) v. River Dee Co., (1885) 10 AC 354; British South Africa Co. v. De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., (1910) 1 Ch 354], subject to the consequences if the act is prohibited by the Charter or Act of Parliament, or by law directly or indirectly, Jenkins v. Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, (1921) 1 Ch 392. On the other hand, a cor-poration or company which is created by or under statute cannot do anything at all unless authorized expressly or impliedly by the statute or instrument defining its powers. An act done ultra vires a corporation means that it is 'an act which the company in general meeting could not authorize, and an act which, if every individual corporator assented to it, would still...
ultra vires
ultra vires [Latin, beyond the power or means (of)] : beyond the scope or in excess of legal power or authority (as of a corporation) [the agency acted ultra vires] [the agreement was ultra vires] compare intra vires ...
intra vires
intra vires [New Latin] : within the powers [a corporate director acting intra vires] compare ultra vires ...
Extra-territorial operations
Extra-territorial operations, the words 'extra-territorial operation' are used, in two different senses as connoting firstly, laws in respect of acts or events which take place inside the State but have operation outside, and secondly, laws with reference to the nationals of a State in respect of their acts outside, that in its former sense, the laws are strictly speaking intra-territorial though loosely termed 'extra-territorial', and that under Art. 245(1) it is within the competence of the Parliament and of the State Legislatures to enact laws with extra territorial operation in the sense. The words 'laws with extra-territorial operation' in Article 245(2) must be understood in their second and strict sense as having reference to the laws of a State for their nationals in respect of acts done outside the State. Otherwise, the provision would be redundant as regards legislation by parliament and inconsistent as regards laws enacted by States, Bengal Immunity Co. Ltd. v. State of Biha...
Extra-parochial
Extra-parochial [fr. extra and parochia, Lat.], outside of any parish. The (English) Extra-parochial Places Act, 1857 (20 Vict. c. 19), provides for extra-parochial places being annexed to their adjoining parishes....
Extra costs
Extra costs, those charges which do not appear upon the face of the proceedings, such as witnesses' expenses, fees to counsel, attendances, Court-fees, etc., an affidavit of which must be made, to warrant the master in allowing them upon taxation of costs. See INCREASE....
Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus
Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus [Lat.], An outlaw is civilly dead....
Extra territorium jus dicenti non paretur impune
Extra territorium jus dicenti non paretur impune. 10 Rep. 77.-(The decision of one adjudicating beyond his territory cannot be obeyed with impunity.)...
Extra viam
Extra viam, out of the way...
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