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Definition of Estop
1. v. t. To impede or bar by estoppel.
Definition of Estop
1. Verb. To impede or bar by estoppel. ¹
2. Verb. To stop up, to plug ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Estop
1. to impede by estoppel [v -TOPPED, -TOPPING, -TOPS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estop
Literary usage of Estop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... does not estop defendant from claiming before the maeter.to whom the amount
due was referred. ..."
2. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1879)
"What written contracts will not estop. The doctrine of estoppel has no application
to a case where the party whom it was sought to estop was induced, ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"Crawford, 70 NY o. Except as to the findings and recitals of jurisdictional facts,
the record of a judgment in rem binds strangers. See Big. on estop. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"trusted to the officers making the bonds, but to other officers or to a different
tribunal, a recital importing compliance with the law does not estop the ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"If the wife cannot estop herself from ratifying the sale of her land to her
husband made without the court's sanction, theu she cannot recover the proceeds ..."
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