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CLEAN HANDS DOCTRINE

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The legal principle that a person or a party that has acted in bad faith or fraudulently with regard to a dispute will be unable to use the court system to right a wrong that eventually they may face arising out of the same circumstances. For example, a car mechanic who did not have a license and failed to do a reasonably good job fixing a consumers car will not be able to use the court to sue the consumer for non-payment for time expended.

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