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Meaning of JUDGE-MADE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Judge"-made`\, 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 judicial interpretation considered
doing this.
      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.             --Sir
                                               Frederick
                                               Pollock.
 
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