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Judicial Discretion

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

The power confided to a judge to exercise his individual discrimination and opinion in deciding cerrow limits, within which, however, its exer cise is not subject to review. “Judicial discretion” means a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law.

26 Wend. 142.