Red Hand - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: red handRed 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...
Red-handed
Red-handed, with the marks of crime fresh on him....
Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend
Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend, bearing upon the back, or about a man. Where a thief is apprehended with the things stolen in his possession, also called being taken with the mainour, as having the goods in his hand, 2 Inst. 188. It was one of the four circumstances wherein a forester might have arrested the body of a trespasser in a forest; viz., dog-draw, i.e., drawing after a deer that he has hurt; stable-stand, i.e., at his standing with a knife, gun, bow, or greyhound, ready to shoot or course; backberend, i.e., carrying away upon his back the deer which he had killed; bloody-handed (red handed), i.e., when he had shot or coursed, and was imbrued with blood, 4 Inst. 294....
Red hot
Red with heat heated to redness as red hot iron red hot balls Hence figuratively excited violent as a red hot radical...
Red light
an electrically operated set of lights at a road intersection which has different lights visible to traffic from different directions designed to control vehicle traffic through the intersection Each set of lights typically has a colored red light and also green and amber lights the color of the light which is lighted at any one time changes automatically to control the flow of traffic through the intersection allowing flow from different directions in alternating succession Also called traffic light traffic signal or stop light When the red light is illuminated the signal means to stop green means to go and amber means to stop or procede through the intersection with caution In simple intersections of two roads a red light visible to traffic on one road will usually be accompanied by a green light visible to traffic on the intersecting road In some locations the lights may be set to be illuminated in other sequences or combinations a blinking red light is typically equivalent to a ldq...
clean hands
clean hands : innocence of wrongdoing or deceit [plaintiff must come into court with clean hands] see also clean hands doctrine ...
red herring
red herring [red herring something that distracts attention from the main issue, diversion] : a preliminary prospectus (as for the sale of securities) that is not yet approved by the appropriate body (as the Securities and Exchange Commission) ...
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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