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Is there a place in the Jewish legal system for rulings based on the judge’s intuition, as in the civil legal system, and if so, what is the source of this?
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Yes. In the law of money, from the very beginning of the law, everything is determined by the opinion of the judge, but in other areas the judge can only deviate from a fraudulent law. See Rambam, Hala Sanhedrin, beginning of P. 25 and beginning of P. 26.
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Like the Amoraim in Tractate Ketuvot who transferred an oath from a woman to her opponent because someone they trusted said she was a liar, they also forged a document in a similar manner.
This is the source cited on the subject of tools there.
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