Did you rely on someone’s words in a transaction and get misled? \u00a0You should consider whether the doctrine of equitable estoppel may help you in court. \u00a0Here is the often-cited standard.<\/p>\n
Equitable estoppel “is imposed by law in the interest of fairness to prevent the enforcement of\u00a0rights which would work fraud or injustice upon the person against whom enforcement is sought and who,\u00a0in justifiable reliance upon the opposing party’s words or conduct, has been misled into acting upon the\u00a0belief that such enforcement would not be sought.” Nassau Trust Co. v. Montrose Concrete Prods. Corp<\/em>.,\u00a056 N.Y.2d 175, 184, 436 N.E.2d 1265, 451 N.Y.S.2d 663 (1982), rearg denied 57 N.Y.2d 674 (1982).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you have any legal questions or need help with an equitable estoppel defense, please contact Attorney Scott Lanin at (212) 764-7250 x 201 or use the contact form in the right sidebar.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you rely on someone’s words in a transaction and get misled? \u00a0You should consider whether the doctrine of equitable estoppel may help you in court. \u00a0Here is the often-cited standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ny-business-litigator-blog-ny-real-estate-litigator-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}