Clean hands doctrine (Law)
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Dirty hands doctrine (Law)
Doctrine, Clean hands (Law)
Doctrine, Dirty hands (Law)
Doctrine, Unclean hands (Law)
Unclean hands doctrine (Law)
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found: Work cat.: 2018023426: Anenson, T. Leigh. Judging equity : the fusion of unclean hands into U.S. law, 2019:ECIP summary (analyzes the scope of judicial authority and discretion to recognize the equitable doctrine of unclean hands as a bar to actions seeking damages in the United States)
found: Blacks Law Dictionary, 1999(Clean-hands doctrine: The principle that a party cannot seek equitable relief or assert an equitable defense if that party has violated an equitable principle, such as good faith; also termed: unclean-hands doctrine)
found: Wikipedia (English), viewed May 15, 2018"Clean hands" (variants in article and references include "Clean hands doctrine", "Dirty hands doctrine" and "Unclean hands")
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2018-05-15: new
2018-09-11: revised
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