Associations to the word «Estoppel»

ESTOPPEL, noun. (common 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.

ESTOPPEL BY DEED, noun. (legal) A legal doctrine under which a first party who purports to sell real property that the first party does not actually own to a second party must actually convey that property to the second party if the first party later acquires title to that property.

ESTOPPEL BY DEED, noun. (legal) (archaic) The doctrine that a party is bound to a claim which that party made in order to induce another party to act.

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