What is CLEAN HANDS? Definition of CLEAN HANDS in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Equitable relief may be denied on ground of deceit or impurity of motive, O'Brien v. Hamill, 264 N.Y.S. 557, 147 Misc. 709; fraud or wilful misconduct, Eresch v. Braecklein, C.C.A. Kan., 133 F.2d 12, 14; Margolis v. Burke, Sup., 53 N.Y.S.2d 157, 161, 162; unjust and unfair conduct, Dutch Maid Bakeries v. Schleicher, 58 Wyo. 374, 131 P.2d 630, 634; unlawful or inequitable conduct, Rhodes v. Miller, 179 So. 430, 432, 189 La. 288; Lodati v. Lodati, 52 N.Y.S.2d 119, 120, 268 App. Div. 1003; wrongdoing, Dales v. Muir, 351 Pa. 187, 40 A.2d 476, 477.
The maxim is confined to misconduct in relation to or connected with the matter in litigation. Teuscher v. Grogg, 136 Okl. 129, 276 P. 753, 760, 66 A.L.R. 143; Hartman v. Cohn, 350 Pa. 41, 38 A.2d 22, 25. It is inapplicable where to withhold relief would offend public morals more than to grant relief, Furman v. Furman, 34 N.Y.S.2d 699,704, 178 Misc. 582; and where result will be to leave property in hands of one having no claim thereto or require further litigation, Harrell v. Allen, 183 Va. 722, 33 S.E.2d 222, 226. The act must prejudicially affect defendant, Wiley v. Wiley, 59 Cal.App.2d 840, 139 P.2d 950, 951. But 'it has been held that application of maxim is not limited to a case where the iniquitous action is one of which the moving party may personally complain. Leo Feist, Inc. v. Young, D.C.Wis., 46 F.Supp. 622, 628.
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