The basic premise of estoppel is that of misleading a reasonable man. As stated by Brett J. in Carr v. London & North Western Ry. Co. (1875), L.R. 10 C.P. 307 at 317: “… if a man, whatever his real meaning may be, so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take his conduct to mean a certain representation of facts, and that it was a true representation, and that the latter was intended to act upon it in a particular way, and he with such belief does act in that way to his damage, the first is estopped from denying that the facts were as represented.”
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