clean hands

clean hands definition - legal

n

The quality of a person who acted in an equitable way (that is, fair, just, proper, reasonable, with good faith) in a dispute or transaction, for which he or she is now seeking relief or asserting a defense in an action in equity. See also unclean hands.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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