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estop
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Word definitions for estop in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
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.