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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 ...
Ultra
Ultra; damages ultra, damages beyond a sum paid into Court....
Barbed-wire
Barbed-wire. By the (English) Barbed Wire Act,1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 32), s. 2, 'barbed wire' means any wire with spikes or jagged projections; and the expression 'nuisance to a highway,' as applied to it, means barbed wire which may probably be injurious to persons or animals lawfully using such highway. A local authority can require the removal of barbed wire adjoining a highway when it thus constitutes a nuisance; but on lands not adjoining a highway a person is in general under no liability for the use of such wire....
Electrical resistance wires
Electrical resistance wires, the expression 'electrical resistance wires' in Item 73(23) has to be read along with the 'Nichrome' which precedes that expression and, it can only mean electrical wires having characteristics similar to those of Nichrome, namely, high resistivity, keeping in view the low resistivity of Tungsten wire it cannot be regarded as electrical resistance wire falling under Item 73(23), Union of India v. Kalpana Industries Ltd., 1995 Supp (6) SCC 712 (714). [Customs Tariff Act, 1934, Sch. I, Item 73(23)]...
Damages ultra
Damages ultra, additional damages claimed by a plaintiff not satisfied with those paid into Court by the defendant....
Terris et catallis tentis ultra debitum levatum
Terris et catallis tentis ultra debitum levatum, a judicial writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt, Reg. Judic....
Ultra petitia (Lat)
Ultra petitia (Lat), a term applied to a judgment or decree for more than what the plaintiff asked....
Ultra posse non potest esse et vice versa
Ultra posse non potest esse et vice versa, what is beyond possibility cannot exist....
hot wire
to start a car by using a wire instead of a key as when stealing the car the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key...
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