A party seeking to stay consent orders made upon settlement must first institute proceedings for final relief such as rescission; an interlocutory application for a stay without any underlying claim for final relief is fundamentally deficient. A claim that a settlement was procured by duress of one party's own legal representative will not succeed against the other party absent evidence that the other party had knowledge of the duress. An assertion of a party's position in a disputed proceeding does not constitute misrepresentation where the amount owing was the very subject of the dispute and compromise.
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