What does promissory estoppel mean under Oklahoma law?

The law is full of terms of art, legal ease, Latin and a variety of other terms that make it hard for anyone other than lawyers (and hard even for some lawyers) to comprehend.

One such term is promissory estoppel.  This is a term that comes up an Oklahoma lawsuit when a person is trying to enforce an agreement but the agreement doesn’t quite meet the legal definition of an enforceable “contract.”

Recently, in a court case in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, the attorneys representing one of the parties provided an excellent definition and explanation of the term promissory estoppel:

Jedson's MPSJ Against CP Kelco 3.11

 

Here is a link that will take you to the full document (it is a large document, give it some time to load) and to the court case from which the document came.

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On this blog, I write about and try to answer practical Oklahoma legal questions. My focus and most experience is in estate planning and business issues including Oklahoma non-compete law. I make a living as an attorney in the law firm I founded, Shawn J. Roberts, P.C. in Oklahoma City. I live in Edmond with my wife Amy and my two children, Sam (19) and David (11). We live precisely in the path of where the "wind comes sweeping down the plains."