ultra vires
C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law adjective
Beyond the legal power or authority of a company or its directors.
The guarantee was struck down as ultra vires, falling outside the company's stated objects.
Business adjective
Beyond the legal powers granted to a company or its officers.
The court voided the guarantee as ultra vires, since the charter never authorized it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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