Silence

In the law of estoppel, imports knowledge with opportunity to act.* No principle is better established than that a party is not estopped by his silence imless he has misled another to his hurt.' Although silence ag to a material fact is not necessarily, as matter of law, equivalent to a false representation, yet concealment or suppression by either party to a contract of sale, with intent to deceive, of a material fact, which he in good faith is bound to disclose, is evidence of, and equivalent to, a false representation." That s Uence in an instrument is exclusion may be applied to a statute.^ Silent. A contract is sometimes said to be silent £is to a contingency.

See Implied.

See further Accounx, 1; Acijdiescence; Conceal, 5; Consent; Estoppel, Equitable; Knowledge, 1; Kepresextation, 1; Rescission; Stand By.