release by estoppel

release by estoppel
A release executed by a party under such circumstances that he is precluded by his own negligence from asserting that it is not legal and binding upon him; as where a person who signed a release could read it and did not although he had full opportunity to do so before signing it. Wallace v Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. 67 Iowa 547, 549.

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