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Estop

Estop \Es*top"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Estophed; p. pr. & vb. n. Estopping.] [OF. estoper to stop, plug, close, F. ['e]touper, LL. stuppare to close with tow, obstruct, fr. L. stuppa tow, oakum, cf. Gr. sty`pph. Cf. Stop.] (Law) To impede or bar by estoppel.

A party will be estopped by his admissions, where his intent is to influence another, or derive an advantage to himself.
--Abbott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
estop

in law, "to bar, prevent, preclude," 1530s, from Anglo-French estopper "to stop, bar, hinder" (especially in a legal sense, by one's own prior act or declaration), from Old French estoper "plug, stop up, block; prevent, halt" (also in obscene usage), from estope "tow, oakum," from Latin stuppa "tow" (used as a plug); see stop (v.).

Wiktionary
estop

vb. 1 To impede or bar by estoppel. 2 To stop up, to plug

Usage examples of "estop".

In other words, that parties by entering into contracts may not estop the legislature from enacting laws intended for the public good.

Having told him that she had a divorce, she will be estopped to take advantage of her chicanery.

Having resorted to fraud to lead Garvin Hastings to think she had secured a divorce, she is now estopped to falsify her own utterances.