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What does judge-made mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word judge-made? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (derogatory) Created by judges or judicial decision; used especially of law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as to extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc.
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Sonny was unaware, as are so many employers, that the judge-made law, the common law, usually imposes an additional obligation to pay severance pay to long-term employees.
And curiously enough we are dealing most extensively in judge-made law even today.
When it comes to criminal justice in this country, we want jury-made justice not judge-made justice,' he said.
Although this language was judge-made, it used to be treated as if it was the language of statute.
They will create a body of judge-made law of the highest value.
Taff Vale judge-made law renders the labor union hors de combat at a stroke.

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