Opinion ID: 2617586
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Heading: there can be but one authentic memorial of a judgment or final order

Text: This court stands committed to the principle that in the judgment roll of a case there can be only one authentic memorial of a judgment. [18] When confronted with two instruments that memorialize the same ruling, the court will deem the earlier entry to control over the later, even if the later should contain some matter not included in the former. This is the Aishman doctrine. [19] It protects the inviolability of the earlier-recorded memorial that stands unvacated. Its teaching is that a nisi prius judge may not, without resort to modification or vacation process, [20] paper over an earlier memorial. Absent orderly vacation process, the later memorial of the same ruling will be regarded as a nullity on the face of the judgment roll. The law cannot tolerate more than one record entry of the same ruling. [21]