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"Judges not only discover law but they also make law." Who among the following was supporter of this…

John Chipman Gray held that judges do not merely find the law but make it; in "The Nature and Sources of the Law" he treated the rules laid down by the courts as the law…

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"Judges not only discover law but they also make law."
Who among the following was supporter of this view ?

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John Chipman Gray held that judges do not merely find the law but make it; in "The Nature and Sources of the Law" he treated the rules laid down by the courts as the law itself and statutes only as sources.

Coke, Hale and Blackstone are the classic supporters of the declaratory theory, under which judges only discover and declare existing law and do not make it.

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