judge-made

English

Adjective

judge-made (not comparable)

1. (sometimes 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.
   • 1904, Frederick Pollock, The Expansion of the Common Law:

     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.