Massey v. Barbee.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “A decree by consent, as such, must stand and operate as an entirety or be vacated altogether, unless the parties by a like consent shall agree upon and incorporate into it an alteration or modification. If a clause be stricken out against the will of a party, then it is no longer a consent decree, nor is it a decree of the court, for the court never made it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bank v. . McEwen

2. “The judgment, or, as it is termed, the decree, is by consent the act of the parties rather than (the act) of the court, and it can only be modified or changed by the same concurring agencies that first gave it form, and whatever has been legitimately, and in good faith, done in carrying out its provisions must remain undisturbed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bank v. . McEwen