ultralegal

English

Etymology

From ultra- +‎ legal.

Adjective

ultralegal (comparative more ultralegal, superlative most ultralegal)

1. Going beyond what is authorized or set out by law.
   • 1930, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Consolidation of Veterans' Activities: Hearings..., page 84:

     I want to say at this time I shall have something to say in regard to the enlarged powers of the comptroller, which I think are ultralegal, in which he has taken over the functions of the Government entirely without regard to any authorization of law.

   • 2007, Cecil D. Eby, Comrades and Commissars, page 317:

     Public opinion had softened Hull's earlier ultralegal position that Americans who enlisted in the armies of foreign countries had lost their citizenship, […]