nunc pro tunc
Now for then
Nunc pro tunc is a Latin legal phrase meaning "now for then," used when a court action is applied retroactively.
A judge may issue a nunc pro tunc order to correct clerical errors or make a ruling effective from an earlier date: The court entered the divorce decree nunc pro tunc to the date the parties first appeared.
- retroactiveEffective from a past date
- backdatingAssigning earlier date falsely
- judicialOf courts and judges
- legalPermitted by statute
- court orderBinding judicial directive
ruling · curative · clerical error · legal fiction · set aside · order · adjudication · decree · law · judge · legal remedy · docket · stipulation · filing · validation · ex post facto · doctrine · motion
- Legal Latinab initio, bona fide, caveat emptor, certiorari, de facto
temporal direction of legal effect
nunc pro tuncprospective
Expected in the future
prospectively · forward-looking · going forward · henceforth · as of today
promise, progress, produce, protect, project, product, prompt, propose, pronounce