See estoppel. A legal principle preventing a person from asserting a position different than one taken when they had an ability to confirm or deny the truth of such a position. The silence of that party may also have affected the rights or position of another party. As such, they should not be allowed to change their position at a convenient time. … [Read more...] about ESTOPPEL BY SILENCE
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ESTATE TAIL, QUASI
When a tenant for life grants his estate to a man and his heirs, as these words, though apt and proper to create an estate tail, cannot do so, because the grantor, being only tenant for life, cannot grant in perpetuum, therefore they are said to create an estate tail quasi, or improper. Brown. … [Read more...] about ESTATE TAIL, QUASI
ESTOPPEL IN PAIS
See estoppel. … [Read more...] about ESTOPPEL IN PAIS
ESTADAL
Spanish law. In Spanish America, this was a measure of land of sixteen square varas or yards. 2 White's Coll. 139. … [Read more...] about ESTADAL
ESTATE IN DOWER
A species of life estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to claim on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of which he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which, her issue, if any, might by possibility have inherited. 3 Steph. Comm. 249; 2 Bl. Comm. 129; Cruise, Dig. tit 6; 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 124, … [Read more...] about ESTATE IN DOWER