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vires

vires noun: the state of being either ultra vires or intra vires; the extent of a court's, legislature's, or other government entity's jurisdiction to do something. Also the plural of vire.

Noun

vires

  1. the state of being either ultra vires or intra vires; the extent of a court's, legislature's, or other government entity's jurisdiction to do something.
    • The United Kingdom, in particular, argued that the adoption of universally applicable rules for determining the law applicable to non-contractual obligations was not necessary for the proper functioning of the Internal Market and that some territorial restriction on the situations to which the...2017, Andrew Dickinson, “Rome II Regulation (non-contractual obligations”, in Encyclopedia of Private International Law, volume 2, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 1563

Also used as

vires is also the plural of vire.

vires is also the plural of vis.

vires is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of vire.

Phrases with vires

Questions about vires

What does vires mean?
Vires means the state of being either ultra vires or intra vires; the extent of a court's, legislature's, or other government entity's jurisdiction to do something.
What part of speech is vires?
Vires is a noun.

Words near vires in the dictionary

  1. vireonid
  2. vireonids
  3. vireonine
  4. vireoretinal
  5. vireos
  6. vires
  7. virescence
  8. virescences
  9. virescent
  10. virescently
  11. vireton

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