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Judge Made Law

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Judge made law, there is in fact no such thing as Judge-made law, for the judges to not make the law, they frequently have to apply existing law to circumstances as to which it has not previously been authoritatively laid down that such law is applicable, State of Gujarat v. Gordhandas Keshavji Gandhi, AIR 1962 Guj 128.

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