Empty Handed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: empty handedempty handed
having acquired or gained nothing as the returned from the negotiations empty handed...
Emptiness
The state of being empty absence of contents void space vacuum as the emptiness of a vessel emptiness of the stomach...
Empty
Containing nothing not holding or having anything within void of contents or appropriate contents not filled said of an inclosure or a container as a box room house etc as an empty chest room purse or pitcher an empty stomach empty shackles...
empty bellied
needing nourishment hungry as empty bellied children...
Emptying
The act of making empty...
Red hand
Having hands red with blood in the very act as if with red or bloody hands said of a person taken in the act of homicide hence fresh from the commission of crime as he was taken red hand or red handed...
clean hands
clean hands : innocence of wrongdoing or deceit [plaintiff must come into court with clean hands] see also clean hands doctrine ...
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. ...
Handed
With hands joined hand in hand...
hand to hand
close to ones adversary of combat as hand to hand fighting...
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