Estoppel by deed
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
where a party has executed a deed, that is, a writing under seal (as a bond) reciting a certain fact, and is thereby precluded from afterwards denying, in any action brought upon that instrument, the fact so recited. Steph. PI.
197.
A man shall always be estopped by his own deed, or not permitted to aver or prove anything in contradiction to what he has once so solemnly and deliberately avowed.
2 Bl. Comm. 295 ; Plowd. 434; Hudson v. Winslow Tp., 35 N. J. Law, 441; Taggart v. Risley, 4 Or. 242; Appeal of Waters, 35 Pa 526, 78 Am. Dec. 354.
Defined under Estoppel in Black's Law Dictionary.