estop
/ɪˈstɒp
/verb (estops, estopping, estopped) [with object] (usually be estopped from) Law
Bar or preclude by estoppel: the company may be estopped from denying either statement...
- By reason thereof, the Claimant is estopped from denying that he is entitled to use the driveway for those purposes.
- Your Honour, the first defendant's position is that the plaintiff is either estopped from bringing these proceedings or the proceedings constitute an abuse of process.
- As a matter of law the claimant is thereby estopped from bringing the present claim.
Derivatives
estoppage
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'stop up, dam, plug'): from Old French estopper 'stop up, impede', from late Latin stuppare, from Latin stuppa 'tow, oakum'. Compare with stop and stuff.
Rhymes
- goal-kicker
- goal-kicking
- goalless
- goal line
- go (all) round the houses
- go all the (or the whole) way
- goalminder
- goalmouth
- go-alone
- go along with
- goal-orientated
- goal-oriented
- goal poacher
- goalpost
- goalscorer
- goalscoring
- goal sneak
- goaltender
- goaltending
- goal to go
- goal umpire
- goalward
- goalwards
- Goan
- go and chase oneself