Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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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. * Such a party is described as having "unclean hands." - Also termed unclean-hands doctrine.

unclean-hands doctrine

See CLEAN-HANDS DOCTRINE.