Dissertation on La Eme, Sur 13 & Angelenos 2/2

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"UNCLEAN HANDS PRINCIPLE. Principle that one who has unclean hands is not entitled to relief in equity. Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp, 242 Ala. 92, 5 So.2d 73, 78, 79, 80. The doctrine has no application unless party's wrongdoing has some proximate relation to the subject matter in controversy. Fritz v. Jungbluth, 141 Neb. 770, 4 N.W. 2d 911, 913, 914. Vercesi v. Petri, 334 Pa. 385, 5 A. 2d 563, 565."

"UTLAGATUS EST QUASI EXTRA LEGEM POSITUS. CAPUT GERIT LUPINUM. 7 Coke, 14. An outlaw is, as it were, put out of the protection of the law. He bears the head of a wolf."
[Black's Law Dictionary, 4th Ed.]

Latin Phrase: "Lupis pilum mutat, non mentem/The wolf may change his skin, but not his nature."
[Black Cat, 1934]

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