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estoppel - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bar that prevents a person from presenting evidence contradicting a certain established fact.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stoppage; impediment.
- noun In law, the stopping of a person by the law from asserting a fact or claim, irrespective of its truth, by reason of a previous representation, act, or adjudication inconsistent therewith.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A legal principle in the law of
equity that prevents a party from asserting otherwise valid legal rights against another party because conduct by the first party, or circumstances to which the first party has knowingly contributed, make it unjust for those rights to be asserted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Obsolete French estouppail, from Old French estouper, to stop up, from Vulgar Latin *stuppāre; see stop.]
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Examples
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Former Tory Cabinet Minister Douglas Hogg says he and other MPs accused of abusing their allowances are entitled to keep their expenses based on the Norman law of 'estoppel' - derived from the French word for 'bung'.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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This type of estoppel is most commonly called collateral estoppel.
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This type of estoppel is most commonly called collateral estoppel.
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This type of estoppel is most commonly called collateral estoppel.
Legal Definitions 2009
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This type of estoppel is most commonly called collateral estoppel.
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Equitable estoppel is appropriate where the plaintiff is prevented from filing an action within the applicable statute of limitations due to his or her reasonable reliance on deception, fraud or misrepresentations by the defendant.
Personal Injury 2007
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No new separate and subsequent acts of wrongdoing beyond the sexually abusive acts themselves are alleged, and equitable estoppel is therefore inapplicable to these cases.
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Last week's term was promissory estoppel, which is defined as: promissory estoppel
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Last week's term was promissory estoppel, which is defined as: promissory estoppel
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Last week's term was offensive collateral estoppel, which is defined as:
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