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heavy handed

same as ham fisted...


Heavy package

Heavy package, s. 2(a) 'heavy package' means a package or other object weighing not less than one metric ton, which is equal to one thousand kilograms or 2204.6 standard pounds or 26.8 standard maunds. [Marking of Heavy Packages Act, 1951 (39 of 1951), s. 2(a)]...


Heavy armed

Wearing heavy or complete armor carrying heavy arms...


Heavy locomotive and light locomotive

Heavy locomotive and light locomotive, means a mechanically propelled vehicle which is not constructed itself to carry a load, other than excepted articles, and the weight of which unladen(1) in the case of a light locomotive, exceeds 7,370 but does not exceed 11,690 kilograms; and(2) in the case of a heavy locomotive, exceeds 11,690 kilograms [Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 40(1), para 16, p. 24]....


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...


Heaviness

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses weight sadness sluggishness oppression thickness...


Heavy goods vehicle

Heavy goods vehicle, means any goods carriage the gross vehicle weight of which, or a tractor or a road-roller the unladen weight of either of which, exceeds 12,000 kilograms. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (16)]...


Heavy passenger motor vehicle

Heavy passenger motor vehicle, means any public service vehicle or private service vehicle or educational institution bus or omnibus the gross vehicle weight of any of which, or a motor car the unladed weight of which, exceeds 12,000 kilograms. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (17)]...


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. ...


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