estoppel noun. [ɪ'stɒp(ǝ)l] M16.
[Old French estoup(p)ail plug, stopper, formed as ESTOP: see -AL¹.]
1. Law. The principle which precludes a person from asserting something contrary to what is implied by his or her previous action or statement or by a previous judicial determination concerning that person; an occasion on which this applies. M16.
estoppel in PAIS.

2. An obstruction (to a watercourse). E-M17.

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