Legal Definition and Related Resources of Judicial Discretion
Meaning of Judicial Discretion
The option a judge has in doing or not doing a thing which cannot be demanded by a litigant as an absolute right However, such a discretion is to be exercised not arbitrarily but guided by the spirit, principles and analagies of law and founded upon reason. state v grant , 519 P.2d 261, 10 Wash.App. 468.
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See “Discretion.”
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