nunc pro tunc

/nank prow tank/ Now for then. A phrase applied to acts allowed to be done after the time when they should be done, with a retroactive effect, i.e., with the same effect as if regularly done. Nunc pro tune entry is an entry made now of something actually previously done to have effect of former date; office being not to supply omitted action, but to supply omission in record of action really had but omitted through inadvertence or mistake. Seabolt v. State, Okl.Cr., 357 P.2d 1014.

Nunc pro tunc merely describes inherent power of court to make its records speak the truth, i.e., to correct record at later date to reflect what actually occurred at trial. Simmons v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., D.C.S.C., 235 F.Supp. 325, 330.

Nunc pro tunc signifies now for then, or, in other words, a thing is done now, which shall have same legal force and effect as if done at time when it ought to have been done. State v. Hatley, 72 N.M. 377, 384 P.2d 252, 254.

Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(b) permits amendment of pleadings to conform to evidence. Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders, or other parts of the record can be made by the court under Rule 60(a)

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Judgment given effect as of a date in the past. One entered on a day subsequent to the time at which it should have been entered, as of the latter date.