This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
If an ultra vires contract is performed completely by both parties, no objection can thereafter be raised on the ground of its original invalidity. So a statute authorizing a county to recover money paid without authority of law does not apply where the county has received the benefits, the other party acting in good faith.1
 
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