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⚖️ A legal block ⚖️ To legally prevent 🚫 To block
to estop

to estop

9.9
To stop someone from saying something that goes against what they did or said before
  • verb
  • /ɪˈstɑp/
  • Formal
translation icon : estopar
  • The defendant was estopped from claiming that he was unaware of the regulations after having previously signed them.

Examples

  • The Court explained that government inaction cannot form a proper basis to estop the government from enforcing a law intended to benefit the public.

    Blog text (9)

  • While the CAA may preempt claims in federal courts, it does not stop actions brought under color of state law, nor does the permit shield doctrine apply to estop assertion of a claim.

    Academic text (2001)

  • If Americans don't estop their provocative accusations, ve vill have no choice but to destroy them.

    Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016)

  • The judge ruled that the company was estopped from denying liability due to its earlier admission of fault.

  • She could not estop her former partner from contesting the agreement since he had previously agreed to it.

Surface Forms

estop infinitive
estopped past
estopped past participle
estopping present participle
estops third person singular

Etymology

Estop comes from an old French word meaning 'to stop up' and is related to the English word stop. To estop someone is like putting a 'plug' on their chance to say something that does not match their earlier words, so the origin explains why the verb means to legally prevent a person from changing their story.