Estoppel is a judicial device in common law legal systems whereby a court may prevent or "estop" a person from making assertions or from going back on...
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An Estoppel Certificate (or Estoppel Letter) is a document commonly used in due diligence in real estate and mortgage activities. It is based on estoppel...
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Collateral estoppel (CE), known in modern terminology as issue preclusion, is a common law estoppel doctrine that prevents a person from relitigating an...
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Proprietary estoppel is a legal claim, especially connected to English land law, which may arise in relation to rights to use the property of the owner...
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The doctrine of assignor estoppel is a doctrine of United States patent law barring a patent's seller (assignor) from attacking the patent's validity in...
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In the common law, judicial estoppel (also known as estoppel by inconsistent positions) is an estoppel that precludes a party from taking a position in...
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Estoppel in English law is a doctrine that may be used in certain situations to prevent a person from relying upon certain rights, or upon a set of facts...
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Acquiescence (redirect from Estoppel by acquiescence)
similar to acquiescence include: The common law doctrine of estoppel. A claim of estoppel may arise when one party gives legal notice to a second party...
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Legal estoppel is a principle of law, particularly United States patent law, that an assignor or grantor is not permitted subsequently to deny the validity...
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direct estoppel prevents a party to litigation from relitigating an issue that was decided against that party. Direct estoppel and collateral estoppel are...
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Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun (redirect from Anshun estoppel)
High Court of Australia. The case is notable for originating the 'Anshun estoppel' doctrine in Australian civil proceedings. The rule estops parties from...
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Estoppel is a common law doctrine which, when it applies, prevents a litigant from denying the truth of what was said or done. The doctrine of estoppel...
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Good faith (law) (section Estoppel)
contractual term. Two distinct but related types of estoppel recognised in Canada are promissory estoppel or estoppel by representation, which enables courts to...
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Prosecution history estoppel, also known as file-wrapper estoppel, is a term used to indicate that a person who has filed a patent application, and then...
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Manual of The Mother Church (section Estoppel clauses)
assumed jurisdiction over the estoppel clauses upon Eddy's death. However, according to Eddy biographer Robert Peel, the estoppel clauses still add "moral...
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Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd (category English estoppel case law)
the High Court. It reaffirmed and extended the doctrine of promissory estoppel in contract law in England and Wales. However, the most significant part...
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claim preclusion and issue preclusion (also called collateral estoppel or issue estoppel), though sometimes res judicata is used more narrowly to mean...
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Commonwealth v Verwayen (section Estoppel)
Verwayen, also known as the Voyager case, is a leading case involving estoppel in Australia. Bernard Verwayen sued the Australian government for damages...
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De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel are both terms that are used by courts in most common law jurisdictions to describe circumstances in which...
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jurisdiction Doctrines Business judgment rule Corporate governance De facto and estoppel corporations Internal affairs doctrine Limited liability Tag-along right...
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Easement (section By estoppel)
seller owns, a court may step in and create an easement. Easements by estoppel generally look to any promises not made in writing, any money spent by...
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resulting patent. It is one type of file-wrapper estoppel, the other being prosecution history estoppel. Whenever an applicant makes a clear and unambiguous...
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case in Australian contract law. The Australian High Court decided that estoppel, in certain circumstances, could be a cause of action. Maher owned some...
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Entrapment (section Entrapment by estoppel)
overturned three of the four convictions based on the doctrine of entrapment by estoppel. (The fourth refused to state his address, at which point the committee...
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seller's authority to sell"). Methods of the estoppel can be by words, by conduct, or by negligence. Estoppel by words, or representation by the original...
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finality of the mortgage conveyance. Other defenses, including equitable estoppel, were used to bar redemption as well. This unsettling system had a negative...
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to contract formation has been modified by developments in the law of estoppel, misleading conduct, misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, and power of...
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element has been substituted) and the doctrine of prosecution history estoppel (which holds that a party who makes a change to a patent application to...
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jurisdiction Doctrines Business judgment rule Corporate governance De facto and estoppel corporations Internal affairs doctrine Limited liability Tag-along right...
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moving away from the idea of consideration as a requirement. The idea of estoppel or culpa in contrahendo, can be used to create obligations during pre-contractual...
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