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What do lawyers mean when they say that promissory estoppel can only be used as 'a shield not a sword'? What case is usually reffered to in order to support this?
It can only be used as a defence to an action to enforce legal rights, not as the basis of an action to sue someone - Combe v Combe
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What do the courts mean when they say that promissory estoppel is 'suspensory, not extinctive'?
That it does not destroy the legal rights of the person promising not to exercise them - it merely suspends them temporarily for a particular period.
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What do the courts mean when they say that promissory estoppel is 'suspensory, not extinctive'?

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That it does not destroy the legal rights of the person promising not to exercise them - it merely suspends them temporarily for a particular period.

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