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Judge-Made
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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.