Jones v. Hubbard

How courts have described this case

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• noting that when parties ask a court to render judgment based on a settlement agreement, the critical element of judicial conclusiveness is added to the parties’ agreement
• stating that an order by the court is only considered a judgment if the court has “clearly indicated that the issue submitted has been adjudicated completely and it has reached a final decision on the matter.”
• interpreting a \final order” pursuant to Maryland Rule 2-601 (1997) to be synonymous with a \judgment” and further noting that a final order is rendered when the court performs an act by which it settles and declares the decision of the law on the matters at issue
• “the canons of statutory construction ... are also generally applicable in respect to rule construction”
• even consent judgment is “judgment” or “judicial act” by court because critical element of judicial conclusiveness is added to contractual act, and its only distinction is that it is entered at request of parties
• “the canons of statutory construction are also generally applicable in respect to rule construction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).