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1. (n.) estoppel
a legal bar that prevents a person from asserting a claim or fact that is inconsistent with a position that the person has previously taken.
Etymology: (1575–85; < MF estoupail stopper)
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1. (noun) estoppel
a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled
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1. (noun) estoppel
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
2. (noun) estoppel
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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