 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915
...recognition and relief with reference to the subject-matter or transaction in question. It says that whenever a party who, as actor, seeks to set the judicial...him in limine ; the court will refuse to interfere in his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any remedy." And in paragraph 398 this author... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915
...recognition and relief with reference to the subject-matter or transaction in question. It says that whenever a party who, as actor, seeks to set the judicial...doors of the court will be shut against him in limine ; tbe court will refuse to interfere in his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any remedy."... | |
 | 1919
..." In Brown v. Brown (1895) 66 Conn. 493, 34 Atl. 490, after a reference to the maxim, it was said: "Whenever a party who, as actor, seeks to set the judicial machinery in motion to obtain some relief, has himself violated conscience or good faith in his prior conduct with the... | |
 | Law - 1920
...claimed for him. that he maxim into a court of equity must come with clean hands. That means, "that whenever a party, who, as actor, seeks to set the...principle, in his prior conduct, then the doors of Court will be shut against him in limine ; the Court will refuse to interfere in his behalf, to acknowledge... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921
...equity must come with clean hands. It has been written that: "Whenever a party who, as actor, eeeks to set the judicial machinery in motion and obtain...his prior conduct, then the doors of the court will he shut against him in limine; the court will refuse to interfere on his behalf, to acknowledge his... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921
...Prof. Pomeroy states the meaning of the maxim as follows: "It says that -whenever a party, who, ae actor, seeks to set the judicial machinery in motion...conscience, or good faith, or other equitable principle in hie prior coDduct, then the doors of the court will be shut against him in limine; the court will refuse... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922
...into equity must come with clean hands, and cites from 1 Pomeroy, Eq. Jur. (2d ed.) §§ 397, 399: "Whenever a party, who, as actor, seeks to set the...interfere on his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any remedy." See also note 4 ALR 73; Montana Water Co. v. Billings, 214 Fed. 121; Robson... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922
...his suit. He who comes into a court of equity must come with clean hands. It has been written that : "Whenever a party who, as actor, seeks to set the...interfere on his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any remedy." 1 Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence (4 ed.), § 397, and the following authorities... | |
 | James Webster Eaton - Equity - 1923 - 711 pages
...controversy, which, measured by the principles of equity, is unconscionable and unrighteous. "It says that whenever a party, who, as actor, seeks to set the...interfere on his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any remedy." 9Z The maxim means that a court of equity will not lend its active aid to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925
...into equity must come with clean hands," Is under discussion, Is found this language: "It says that whenever a party, who, as actor, seeks to set the...interfere on his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any remedy." In the following paragraph It la said: "Whatever may be the strictly accurate... | |
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It says that whenever a party, who, as actor, seeks to set the judicial machinery in motion and obtain some remedy, has violated conscience, or good faith, or other equitable principle, in his prior conduct, then the doors of the court will be shut against... 
