Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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 judicial interpretation considered
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.