Definitions for estoppels

estoppels es·top·pel

Spelling: [e-stop-uh l]
IPA: /ɛˈstɒp əl/

Estoppels is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 281 anagrams from letters in estoppels (eeloppsst).

Definitions for estoppels

noun

  1. a bar or impediment preventing a party from asserting a fact or a claim inconsistent with a position that party previously took, either by conduct or words, especially where a representation has been relied or acted upon by others.

Origin of estoppels

First recorded in 1575-85, estoppel is from the Middle French word estoupail stopper. See estop, -al2

Examples for estoppels

No excuse of State Rights, no fine-spun technicality, no plea of irregularity, no argument of estoppel can be heard.

The idea of conserving the game was a fourth-rate consideration, the first being the estoppel of the other man.

Ultimately, very specific human emotions are affected by the rule of the corpus delicti, or the rule governing pleas in estoppel.

If A trades in his own name, a person dealing with him cannot claim that A is a corporation by estoppel.

History now pleads them as an estoppel against his followers.

To create a corporation by estoppel, there must be an organization assuming to act as a corporation.

The doctrine of estoppel "cutting no figure" with the Baxter contingent.

The question relating to estoppel, is thus stated there in abstract terms.

In the latter statement the members of the Oregon Milling Company, who signed the petition, stated an estoppel to themselves.

Peter stood in the sunshine, looking at the estoppel clause, his lips agape.

Word Value for estoppels
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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