Word Meanings - ESTOPPEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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. The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable. Wharton. Stephen. Burrill.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• DENY
  1. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit. Note: We deny what another says, or we deny the truth of an assertion, the force of it, or the assertion itself. 2. To refuse ; to reject; to decline;
• PURCHASE
  purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could
• ALLEGIANT
  Loyal. Shak.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• ALLEGORIC; ALLEGORICAL
  Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing,
• ALLEGORIZATION
  The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• ALLEGORIZER
  One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• ALLEGORIST
  One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.