ultra vires contract
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 291 U.S. 245 - Texas Pac Ry Co v. Pottorff · 1934Most cited · 379 citing opinions
no rights arise on an ultra vires contract, even though the contract has been performed; and that this conclusion cannot be circumvented by erecting an estoppel which would prevent challenging the legality of a power exercised
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ultra vires contract” — 379 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.