Pedantry:
It’s actually derived from ‘vis’, ‘power’, ‘force’, not ‘vir’, ‘man’, so ‘beyond the powers’ - beyond the authority of the court.
‘Beyond men’ would be ‘ultra viros’; ‘beyond [a] man’ would be ‘ultra virum’.
‘A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.’ – James Brander Matthews (1852-1929)
