Hand Hole - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hand holehand hole
A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning etc...
black hole
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison a military lock up or guardroom now commonly with allusion to the cell the Black Hole in a fort at Calcutta called the Black Hole of Calcutta into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20 1765 and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air...
bore hole
a hole or passage made by a drill especially one made for exploratory purposes...
Cat hole
One of two small holes astern above the gunroom ports through which hawsers may be passed...
Hole in the air
same as Air hole above an air pocket...
Sight hole
A hole for looking through a peephole...
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...
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