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adjective
Judge-made  adj.  Created by judges or judicial decision; applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this. Judge-made law is contrasted with statutory law and civil law. "The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Judge-made" Quotes from Famous Books



... Holy Scriptures or the Christian religion?" This amended statement of the Law of Blasphemy went directly in the teeth of our Indictment, which charged us with bringing Holy Scripture and the Christian Religion into disbelief as well as contempt. The fact is, blasphemy is a judge-made crime, and the "blasphemer's" fate depends very largely on who tries him. Lord Coleridge holds one view of the law, Sir James Stephen another, and Justice North another still. Nay, the last judge differs even from himself. He can give two various definitions of the law in five days, ...
— Prisoner for Blasphemy • G. W. [George William] Foote



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