0 a legal rule that prevents someone from changing their mind about something they have previously said is true in court
1 a legal rule which prevents someone from saying in court that something they have previously stated as true in court, or that has been established by the court as true, is in fact not true:
Those words create an estoppel.
There is also, the extent to which computer information should be used in the form of the estoppel doctrine in law, as a shield only and not as a spear.
Would what the lawyers call an estoppel operate, preventing a charge being brought against that youngster?
The provisions about holding statements against immigrants now do not go further than the common law doctrine of estoppel.
Can that statement be regarded as an estoppel?
Therefore, if the money was to be paid over, there would have to be an estoppel in some kind of way.
There is a small number of exceptions to the above, such as easements of varying kinds, covenants, contracts or licences and estoppel rights.
The estoppel principle does not apply because of another legal principle.