Mancini v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1996
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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““Waiver” and “estoppel,” as applied to contracts of insurance, are terms which are interchangeably used, and in each case the meaning and result are the same. Pellon v. Connecticut General Life Ins. Co., 105 Vt. 508 , 168 A. 701 (decided at the October, 1933 Term of this Court). Yet they are in their elements essentially different. “A waiver involves the act or conduct of one of the parties to the contract, only. An estoppel involves the act or conduct of both parties to the contract * * *. A waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right * * *. It involves both knowledge and intent. An estoppel may arise where there is no intent to mislead. A waiver does not necessarily imply that one has been misled to his prejudice or into an altered position * * *. An estoppel always involves this element. A waiver may amount to an estoppel, but not necessarily so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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