from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Judge-made \Judge"-made`\, a.
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. Judge-made law is contrasted with
{statutory law} and {civil law}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]