If it performs acts beyond the terms of its charter these acts are said to be ultra vires.
Ultra vires acts are unlawful, and a single stockholder may prevent, by legal action, the officers of a corporation from completing an ultra vires contract.
Attempts to perform such acts of suretyship are beyond their power, and are ultra vires.
But it is a different proposition to urge that Congress may deny the use of the mails in order to compel corporate publicity, when, if the legislation directly commanded compliance, it would be clearly ultra vires.
It is, however, simply a question of whether the exclusion was ultra vires, not whether it was an abridgment of the freedom of the press.
The executive order of President Roosevelt excluding La Questione Sociale from the mails was ultra vires, but, as Attorney General Bonaparte pointed out, the injured parties had slight chance of a remedy at law.
The law was vigorously assailed as being ultra vires, as denying due process of law, and as impairing the freedom of the press.
The executive veto must be the real check, and in the presence of such a check, English judges would always be very loath(39) to declare the Acts of a legislature ultra vires merely because they infringed common law rights.
No considerations of policy or equity or repugnancy to the common law would avail to challenge an Irish statute on the ground that it was ultra vires.
Remembering Goat's earlier experiments at Ultra Vires, it occurred to Maya to be grateful that Dark had not fallen alive into the hands of these people at the Canfell Hydroponic Farm.
Her room was a spacious one on the ground level, and boasted one of Ultra Vires' few large windows.
We may very well have gotten off course in trying to go straight to Ultra Vires," replied Maya logically.
In such companies, therefore, objects beyond the scope of the memorandum of association are ultra vires of the corporation.
The doctrine of ultra vires, as it is called, is almost wholly of modern and judicial creation.
So strict is the rule that not even the consent of every individual shareholder can give validity to an ultra vires act.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ultra vires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
