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
- immartial
- immask
- immaterial
- immaterialise
- immaterialised
- immaterialism
- immaterialist
- immateriality
- immaterialize
- immaterialized
- immaterially
- immateriate
- immatriculate
- immatriculation
- immature
- immatured
- immaturely
- immatureness
- immaturity
- immeasurability
- immeasurable
- immeasurably
- immediacy
- immediate
- immediate constituent