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Webster 1913 Edition
Estoppel
Es-top′pel
,Noun.
[From
Estop
.] (Law)
(a)
A stop; an obstruction or bar to one’s alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.
(b)
The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Estoppel
ESTOP'PEL
,Noun.
If a tenant for years levies a fine to another person, it shall work as an estoppel to the cognizor.
Definition 2024
estoppel
estoppel
English
Noun
estoppel (plural estoppels)
- (common law) A legal principle in the law of equity that prevents a party from asserting otherwise valid legal rights against another party because of conduct by the first party, or circumstances to which the first party has knowingly contributed, make it unjust for those rights to be asserted.