National Life Ins. Co. v. Kohn

The one question requiring the consideration of this court is whether the Court of Common Pleas was within its powers in making the nunc pro tunc entry of July 11,1936.

It is elementary that courts possess inherent common-law power to enter judgments or orders nunc pro tunc in proper cases. The phrase meaning simply “now for then” is accurately descriptive. The general purpose of such an entry is to record a prior but unrecorded act of the court. In other words, the power to make nunc pro time entries is' restricted ordinarily to the subsequent recording of judicial action previously and…