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A legal principle in the law of equity that prevents a party from asserting otherwise valid legal rights against another party because of conduct by the first party, or circumstances to which the first party has knowingly contributed, making it unjust for those rights to be asserted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: common, countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rule of evidence
From Middle English *estoppel (found only as stoppel, stoppell, stopple, etc.), probably from Old French estoupail, estopail, estopaille, a bung made of oakum (étoupe), from Latin stuppa ("flax, tow"), from Ancient Greek στύππη (stuppē).
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
禁止反言
(jìnzhǐ fǎnyán)
— legal principle in the law of equity
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Chinese Mandarin:
不容反悔
(bùróng fǎnhuǐ)
— legal principle in the law of equity
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Finnish:
estoppel-periaate
— legal principle in the law of equity
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Finnish:
estoppel-este
— legal principle in the law of equity
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Tagalog:
hadlang
— legal principle in the law of equity
