Interpretation "has been entered"
I am having a hard time interpreting a specific phrase. The phrase is "A judgement has been entered."
If a judgement was previously entered, and it was then removed. Would the "has been entered," be the correct tense, or should it be "had been entered." In other words, does "has been entered" imply that the judgement is still entered today, or could it simply just imply that it was entered at one point in the past, not necessarily today?
The phrase "a judgement has been entered" comes from the fact that the judgement document is entered into the legal records, such as a docket sheet or record of proceedings. If a judgement is later superseded by a second judgment, the first judgement is not "removed" from any sense; its record remains, absent extraordinary circumstances. So such a judgement is still "entered," but it is no longer in effect.