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What (who) is estoppel - definition
JUDICIAL DEVICE IN COMMON LAW WHERE A COURT MAY PREVENT A PERSON FROM MAKING ASSERTIONS
Promissory estoppel; Equitable estoppel; Detrimental reliance; Promissory Estoppel; Estop; Estoppal; Estopple; Estopped; Issue estoppel; Estoppel by convention; Estoppel by agreement; Reasonable reliance; Entrapment by estoppel
estoppel
n. a bar or impediment (obstruction) which precludes a person from asserting a fact or a right or prevents one from denying a fact. Such a hindrance is due to a person's actions, conduct, statements, admissions, failure to act or judgment against the person in an identical legal case. Estoppel includes being barred by false representation or concealment (equitable estoppel), failure to take legal action until the other party is prejudiced by the delay (estoppel by laches), and a court ruling against the party on the same matter in a different case (collateral estoppel).
See also: collateral estoppel equitable estoppel estop laches
estoppel
n.
Bar, impediment.
Estoppel
·noun The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.
II. Estoppel ·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.
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Estoppel
Estoppel is a judicial device in common law legal systems whereby a court may prevent or "estop" a person from making assertions or from going back on his or her word; the person being sanctioned is "estopped". Estoppel may prevent someone from bringing a particular claim. Legal doctrines of estoppel are based in both common law and equity. It is also a concept in international law.
Examples of use of estoppel
1. But increasingly, say experts, courts are ruling based on the individuals‘ intent to act as parents and principles like parenthood by "estoppel" – in which an acting parent–child relationship creates legal parenthood.