Opinion ID: 1160937
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Facial Infirmity

Text: ¶ 10 A district court judgment or order is facially void if, on an inspection of the judgment roll, [9] it is apparent that one or more of the requisite jurisdictional elements  that of the subject matter, in personam cognizance, or the court's power to render a particular decision  is shown to have been absent. [10] Whenever absence of cognizance appears on the face of the judgment roll, the judicial act is void and subject to attack at any time. [11] ¶ 11 The defendants' argument is clearly without record support. For a showing that a judicial act lacks facial validity, an entire judgment roll must be included in the materials presented for review. The defendants failed to incorporate into the record for this appeal the entire judgment roll record for (a) the foreclosure suit, (b) the sheriff's sale, (c) the post-sale confirmation and of (d) the deficiency determination. [12] The duty to incorporate into the record all materials necessary to secure corrective relief is cast by law on the appellant. [13] A reviewing court may take notice only of that record which is before it. [14]