estoppel
estoppel is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.
- noun. The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.
- noun. a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled
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