Brixey v. Union Oil Company of California

How courts have described this case

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• “[e]stoppel by silence or inaction is often referred to as estoppel by ‘standing by’”; the underlying principle is embodied in the maxim “one who is silent when he ought to speak will not be heard to speak when he ought to be silent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).