Clean Hands Doctrine - Law Dictionary Search Results
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clean hands doctrine : a doctrine that originated in equity and that bars a plaintiff from seeking judicial relief regarding a matter in which he or she is not free of guilt and does not have clean hands ...
clean hands
clean hands : innocence of wrongdoing or deceit [plaintiff must come into court with clean hands] see also clean hands doctrine ...
clean-up doctrine
clean-up doctrine : a doctrine of jurisdiction that allows a court of chancery which has acquired jurisdiction in a case to decide both equitable and legal questions provided that the legal questions are incidental to the equitable ones ...
hand hole
A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning etc...
Doctrine of pari delicto
Doctrine of pari delicto, The doctrine of pari delicto is not designed to reward the 'wrongdoer' or to penalize the 'wronged', by denying to the victim of exploitation access to justice. The doctrine is attracted only when none of the parties is a victim of such exploitation and both parties have voluntarily and by their free will joined hands to flout the law for their mutual gain, Mohd. Salimuddin v. Misri Lal, (1986) 2 SCC 378: AIR 1986 SC 1019: (1986) 1 SCR 622....
unclean hands
unclean hands : an equitable doctrine: a complainant will be denied relief if he or she has engaged in misconduct (as acting in bad faith) directly relating to the complaint ;also : the condition of having engaged in such misconduct and being barred from equitable relief [may not be invoked by a plaintiff with unclean hands "Royal Sch. Labs., Inc. v. Town of Watertown, 358 F.2d 813 (1966)"] NOTE: Unclean hands on the part of the plaintiff is often pleaded as an affirmative defense by the defendant. ...
party
party pl: parties 1 a : one (as a person, group, or entity) constituting alone or with others one of the sides of a proceeding, transaction, or agreement [the parties to a contract] [a person who signed the instrument as a to the instrument "Uniform Commercial Code"] accommodated party : a party to an instrument for whose benefit an accommodation party signs and incurs liability on the instrument : a party for whose benefit an accommodation is made accommodation party : a party who signs and thereby incurs liability on an instrument that is issued for value and given for the benefit of an accommodated party secured party : a party holding a security interest in another's property third party : a person other than the principals [insurance against injury to a third party] b : one (as an individual, firm, or corporation) that constitutes the plaintiff or defendant in an action ;also : one so involved in the prosecution or defense of a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding as t...
Allegans suam turpitudinem non est audiendus
Allegans suam turpitudinem non est audiendus. 4 Inst. 279.-(A person alleging his own infamy is not to be heard.)-This maxim of the civil law is no part of the law of evidence in England; and it is doubtful whether it ever was. See Best on Evidence. But a person cannot take advantage of his own wrong, and in equity, the maxim holds good that he who comes into equity must come with clean hands....
Unclean hands
Unclean hands, means an equitable doctrine, a complainant will be denied relief if he or she has engaged in misconduct (as acting in bad faith) directly relating to the complaint. The condition of having engaged in such misconduct and being barred from equitable relief, Royal Sch. Labs., Inc. v. Town of Watertown, 358 F 2d 813....
Clean Certificates
Clean Certificates, a member is entitled to a 'clean certificate', that is one which does not contain on it any statement derogatory to his title, W Key & Sons Ltd. (in re:), (1902) 1 Ch 467....
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