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Jndge-made law

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A phrase used to indicate judicial decisions which construe away the meaning of statutes, or find meanings in them the legislature never intended. It is sometimes used as meaning, simply, the law established by judicial precedent.

Cooley, Const. Lim. 70, note.