Eisenhardt v. Papa

We are asked here to resolve a conflict among two principals and four principles. The principles, each clear and well set out in the law, concern the finality, "reviewability,” and revision of judgments. They are:

FIRST: A judgment entered by a court that had no "jurisdiction” to enter it is absolutely void. Such a judgment, said the Court in Fooks’ Executors v. Ghingher, 172 Md. 612, 619 (1937), "may be attacked anywhere, at any time, by any person affected by it. .. ,” it being but "a dead limb upon the judicial tree.”

SECOND: After a judgment has become enrolled, a trial court is without…