noun. A bar that prevents a person from presenting evidence contradicting a certain established fact.

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.

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.

noun. 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.

noun. a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled

"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'."

equitable estoppel  estoppel by deed  estoppel by record  estoppel en pais  

collateral estoppel  estoppel by deed  

rule of evidence  

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