Hand Tight - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hand tightHand tight
As tight as can be made by the hand as to tighten the nut hand tight...
Rain tight
So tight as to exclude rain as a rain tight roof...
Water tight
Water tight, is used as descriptive of a type of wagon and it is not to be understood as a guarantee that it is actually watertight, although it is supposed to be so, Union of India v. Hukumchand, AIR 1970 MP 55; Secretary of State for India v. Laxmi Narain, AIR 1933 Nag 1....
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...
Left hand
Situated on the left nearer the left hand than the right as the left hand side the left hand road...
clean hands doctrine
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 ...
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