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Synonyms for estopped

Grammar : Verb
Spell : e-stop
Phonetic Transcription : ɛˈstɒp

Définition of estopped

Origin :
  • 1530s, from Anglo-French estopper "to stop, bar, hinder" (especially in a legal sense, by one's own prior act or declaration), from Old French estoper "plug, stop up, block; prevent, halt" (also in obscene usage), from estope "tow, oakum," from Latin stuppa "tow" (used as a plug); see stop (v.).
  • verb impede
Example sentences :
  • Treason in the executive branch of the government was estopped.
  • Extract from : « Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete » by Ulysses S. Grant
  • Before attorning, you may do so; after that you are estopped.
  • Extract from : « Mary Anerley » by R. D. Blackmore
  • In rebuking inconstancy she was out of court; she was estopped, as the lawyers call it.
  • Extract from : « Second String » by Anthony Hope
  • In this event the third person is said to be estopped from the right to sue the undisclosed principal.
  • Extract from : « Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 3 » by Various
  • Are third persons ever estopped from denying a corporation's legal existence?
  • Extract from : « Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 3 » by Various
  • If they had failed at some time to claim this protection, are they to be estopped, in all time to come, from claiming it?
  • Extract from : « The Life of Jefferson Davis » by Frank H. Alfriend
  • Retired officers only because officers in active service were estopped from political agitation.
  • Extract from : « Aircraft and Submarines » by Willis J. Abbot.
  • His real reason was that he did not desire to be estopped from reiterating the falsehoods he had so boldly proclaimed.
  • Extract from : « Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy » by Thomas Mealey Harris
  • As no copies of the 1605 or 1609 issues are now extant, it is probable that they also were estopped by the authorities.
  • Extract from : « Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 » by Arthur Acheson
  • Under those circumstances I do not think it is possible for your Honor to say that she has been estopped.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll

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