Usually means: Legally barred from contradicting oneself.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word estoppel:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. estoppel: Merriam-Webster
  2. estoppel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. estoppel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. estoppel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. estoppel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Estoppel, estoppel: Wordnik
  7. estoppel: Wiktionary
  8. estoppel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. estoppel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. estoppel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. estoppel: Dictionary.com
  12. Estoppel (English law), Estoppel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Estoppel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. estoppel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. estoppel: Rhymezone
  16. Estoppel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. estoppel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. estoppel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. estoppel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. estoppel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. estoppel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. estoppel: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. estoppel: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. estoppel: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. estoppel: Legal dictionary
  12. estoppel: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. estoppel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. estoppel: A Word A Day

(Note: See estoppels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (estoppel)

noun:  (common law) A legal principle in the law of equity that prevents a party from asserting otherwise valid legal rights against another party because of conduct by the first party, or circumstances to which the first party has knowingly contributed, make it unjust for those rights to be asserted.

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