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Estoppel

notice of the fact, of benefits from a transaction, contract, instrument, regulation which he might have rejected or contested. This doctrine is obviously a branch of the rule against assuming inconsistent positions (American Jurisprudence, 2nd Edn., Vol. … Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:- (1) By matter of record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall