Rule 58.Entry of judgment.

Rule 58 provides that, subject to Rule 54(b)'s certification requirement for partial judgments, a judgment is entered when it's reduced to writing, signed by the judge, and filed with the clerk under Rule 5. The party the judge designates -- or, absent a designation, the party who prepares the judgment -- must serve a copy on every other party within three days of entry, following Rule 5's service and proof-of-service procedure, with three more days added if service is by mail. The deadlines under Rule 50(b), Rule 52(b), and Rule 59 get those same mail days added, and are further tolled for the length of any period the service requirement goes unmet -- though never tolled more than 90 days from entry. Consent to signing and entering a judgment outside the normal term, session, county, or district is presumed unless a party makes an express, on-the-record objection before the term or session ends, subject to Rule 7(b)(4). A small-claims judgment entered by a magistrate follows this same rule, except a judgment announced and signed in open court at the end of trial counts as served on the parties immediately; a judgment not announced and signed in open court must still be served by the magistrate within three days, with the same mail-day addition and 90-day-capped tolling applied to the deadlines under G.S. 7A-228 instead.