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estoppel|ɛˈstɒpəl|
Forms: 6–7 estople, -pel, -ppell, 7–8 estopple, (9 estoppal), 6– estoppel.
[app. ad. OF. estoupail, estouppail bung or cork, f. estouper: see estop. Cf. stopple.]
†1. An obstruction (to a watercourse) whether natural or artificial. Obs.
1608Norden Surv. Dial. (N.), But estoples of water courses doe in some places grow by such meanes, as one private man or two cannot by force or discretion make remedie. 1638Earl of Cork Diary in Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) V. 44, I sent him 5 Indictments and orders for removing the weares and other estopels.
2. Law. An impediment or bar to a right of action arising from a man's own act, or where he is forbidden by law to speak against his own deed. (Wharton.)
1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. xliv. (1638) 141 Without it be by such a matter that it worke by way of conclusion or estoppell. 1645Milton Colast. (1851) 376 This shall bee an Estoppel to him in an Assise from the recovering his own Land. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. ii. (1743) 47 No estoppel can bind the king. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 377 He may take advantage of the estoppel, for it runs with the land. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 538 Executory interests..may be passed at law by deed, fine, and common recovery, by way of estoppel. 1853Wharton Pa. Digest 783 Estoppel rests on the principle that every man is presumed to speak and act according to the truth and fact of the case.
†b. gen. Stoppage, prohibition. Obs.
1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Low C. ii. 5 b, Accordyng to the full rate of the tyme of the saied Estoppell. |