20 Ga. 102 | Ga. | 1856
delivering the opinion.
This case, it is conceded, settles the principle, that the fund collected in the present instance, for poor school purposes, was illegal — it having been done without authority of' law.
But it is sought to cure the error by entering a nunc pro ■ tunc judgment. We do not so understand the meaning of a nunc pro tunc judgment. It is to enter now a judgment which was rendered, and should have been recorded at a previous time. The phrase signifies now for then; and it is granted to answer the purposes of justice, hut never to do injustice.
But the proposition here is, to enter a totally different judgment, and that, too, without alleging that the original, judgment was not drawn as it was intended it should be. Indeed, it is a misnomer to call this a nunc pro tunc judgment. The original judgment, as drawn, was actually recorded at the time; and the attempt is to substitute a totally; different one. This cannot be done.