judicial restraint
- The practice of restraint in the judicial system where judges avoid deviating from previous court decisions and establishing extensive doctrines
- The judge exercised judicial restraint, choosing to abide by prior case law rather than setting new precedents.
- The principle of judicial restraint prevents courts from making sweeping legal changes.
- In deciding the case, the court chose a path of judicial restraint by strictly interpreting the law, rather than expanding on it.
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