1877 S. Brice Treat. Doctr. Ultra Vires (ed. 2) ii. ii. 56 It will be best to retain the secondary use of the term Ultra Vires, and..to deal only with those proceedings which are bad in reference to matters admitted to be Intra Vires in both meanings.

1884 Law Times (Stanf.) 78 110 If this were intra vires, the other securities which they had accepted were not bonâ fide ones.

1930 A. Palmer Company Secretarial Pract. 185 Excess borrowing intra vires of the company but ultra vires of the directors may be ratified by ordinary resolution.

1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 256 We have already explained..the methods by which this power may be kept intra vires.

1970 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 4th Ser. 19 ii. 244 It would seem that, at least in New Zealand municipal law, if the Antarctica Act is intra vires, the Dependency includes the high seas south of 60° S.

1881 E. L. Mark in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 6 ii. 264 Whether the intranuclear network was present as a structure intra vitam.

1898 Jrnl. Microsc. Soc. 133 Herr A. M. Przesmycki has made a long series of experiments on intra-vitam staining.

1965 Acta Med. Scand. CLXXVIII. 155 (heading) Intra-vitam diagnosis of oxalosis.