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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

JUDGE-MADE

JUDGE-MADE Judge "-made `, a.

Defn: Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc. , and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.

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. Sir Frederick Pollock.

New American Oxford Dictionary

judge-made

judge-made ▶adjective Law constituted by judicial decisions rather than explicit legislation.

Oxford Dictionary

judge-made

judge-made |ˈjʌdʒmeɪd | ▶adjective Law constituted by judicial decisions rather than explicit legislation.