Crossword clues for estop
estop
- Ban legally
- Block, legally
- Prevent, in legalese
- Prevent, at the bar
- Impede lawfully
- Hinder legally
- To prevent by legal means
- Prohibit, in legalese
- Prevent in court
- Prevent at the bar
- Legally halt
- Hinder, in legalese
- Hinder, in law
- Halt, legally speaking
- Halt, legally
- Bar, in legalese
- Bar for lawyers?
- Bar at law
- Put an end to, legally
- Prevent (legally)
- Prevent in law
- Legally restrain
- Legally preclude
- Legal bar
- Keep from happening, in court
- Impede, legally
- Hinder, in court
- Hinder law
- Halt at the bar?
- Finish, at the bar
- Cut off at the bar?
- Cut off at the bar
- Block, in legalese
- Bar, to a lawyer
- Bar, in court
- Bar lega1ly
- Bar in the bar
- Bar by writ
- Bar before the bench
- Prohibit, legally
- Bar, in law
- Bar, legally
- Prevent legally
- Bar at the bar
- Bar, at the bar
- Prevent, legally speaking
- Impede legally
- Bar, by law
- Legally prevent
- Hinder, legally
- Bar in court
- Thwart in court
- Block legally
- Bar legally
- Legally bar
- Legally prohibit
- Block, at the bar
- Legally impede
- Restrain legally
- Preclude legally
- Prevent, in law
- Legally hinder
- Prohibit at the bar
- Bar, to the bar
- Prevent, in court
- Prohibit legally
- Bar, to a barrister
- Prohibit, in law
- Preclude, in law
- Europeans on vacation head for bar
- European trophies over bar
- Knock beers back near the rear of the Lawyer's Bar
- Prevent scriptures turning up, in a strange sense
- Bar refuses to provide bottles
- Jet set romps regularly in bar
- Drunk topes in bar
- Legally block
- Halt legally
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
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
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.