Section 23 He Who Comes Into Equity Must Come With Clean Hands

• Library: Remedies 2006

This maxim is more restrictive than the previous maxim, but more powerful in its scope because it serves as a bar to further action by a court of equity. “‘[W]henever 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 him * * *; the court will refuse * * * to award him any remedy.’” Franklin v. Franklin, 283 S.W.2d 483, 486...