estop

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A law lies on all those powers by which an experiment may be made, which forever estops them from attaining to the substance of the power which lies back of the form.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.

The law of supply and demand regulates free and enfranchised labor, but disfranchisement estops its operation.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted

But, fortunately, there is an ethnological law of their nature which estops the evil influence of such characters by limiting their influence strictly to personal acquaintances.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.