Clean hands
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
Upright before the law; free from fault; in a position to ask the intervention of a court of equity.
Hand down
To decide, declare, announce.
Hand down an opinion
When a member of a court of errors and appeals has written an opinion in a case and delivered it to the clerk for transmission to the court whose decision has been under review, the opinion is said to be " handed down."