For Estoppel we have terms and definitions in 9 topics. The topics are Canadian Law, Domain Names, Law, Legal, Personal Injury Law, Real Estate, Real Estate Appraisal, Sex and Trademark.

Estoppel (Canadian Law)

A rule of law that when person A, by act or words, gives person B reason to believe a certain set of facts upon which person B takes action, person A cannot later, to his (or her) benefit, deny those facts or say that his (or her) earlier act was improper. A 1891 English court decision summarized estoppel as "a rule of evidence which precludes a person from denying the truth of some statement previously made by himself".

Estoppel (Domain Names)

A legal action to restrain an opposing party's contradictions

Estoppel (Law)

An impediment that prevents a person from asserting or doing something contrary to his own previous assertion or act.

Estoppel (Legal)

An impediment that prevents a person from asserting or doing something contrary to his own previous assertion or act.

Estoppel (Personal Injury Law)

A person's own act, or acceptance of facts, which preclude his or her later making claims to the contrary.

Estoppel (Real Estate)

A legal theory under which a person is barred from asserting or denying a fact because of the person's previous acts or words.

Estoppel (Real Estate Appraisal)

A legal restraint that stops or prevents a person from contradicting or reneging on his previous position or previous assertions or commitments.

Estoppel (Sex)

A legal bar to alleging or denying a fact because of one's own previous actions or words to the contrary. Although the legal industry uses the term estoppel in a large variety of circumstances to rationalize all sort of outrageous decisions, the term acquired a degree of infamy through its wholesale application in assigning paternity obligations for children they did not fathers to men that were made the victims of paternity fraud.

Estoppel (Trademark)

Estoppel is a legal term of art for "stopping" certain outcomes requested by a party to a lawsuit. In trademark litigation, the plaintiff is said to be estopped from claiming infringement if plaintiff's actions, or lack thereof, indicated approval of defendant's use of the trademark (acquiescence). Also, Estoppel applies to stop the plaintiff from claiming trademark infringement where the plaintiff delayed for an unreasonably long period of time before beginning enforcement against defendant (laches).

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