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What does judge-made mean?

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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.
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.
Constitutionally-enforceable gay rights are a judge-made invention from beginning to end.
They will create a body of judge-made law of the highest value.
And curiously enough we are dealing most extensively in judge-made law even today.
Clearly, inclusion is judge-made law, not legislative action.

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