In any suit a defendant may, whether the suit is on the court docket or not, confess a judgment in the clerk's office for so much principal and interest as the plaintiff may be willing to accept a judgment or decree for. The same shall be entered of record by the clerk in the order book and be as final and as valid as if entered in court on the day of such confession. The clerk shall record such judgment or decree and the date and time of the day at which the same was confessed. The lien of such judgment or decree shall run from the time such judgment is recorded on the judgment lien docket of the clerk's office of the county or city in which land of the defendant lies.
Code 1955, § 8-355; 1962, c. 388; 1977, c. 617; 2012, c. 802; 2014, c. 330.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 - Civil Remedies and Procedure
Chapter 17 - Judgments and Decrees Generally
§ 8.01-426. "Judgment" includes decree
§ 8.01-427. Persons entitled under decree deemed judgment creditors; execution on decree
§ 8.01-429. Action of appellate court when there might be redress under § 8.01-428
§ 8.01-430. When final judgment to be entered after verdict set aside
§ 8.01-431. Judgment or decree by confession in pending suit
§ 8.01-432. Confession of judgment irrespective of suit pending
§ 8.01-433. Setting aside judgments confessed under § 8.01-432
§ 8.01-433.1. Notice of confession of judgment provision
§ 8.01-434. Lien of such judgments
§ 8.01-435. Who may confess judgment
§ 8.01-436. Form of confession of judgment
§ 8.01-437. Endorsement of clerk thereon
§ 8.01-438. When judgment confessed by attorney-in-fact copy to be served on judgment debtor
§ 8.01-439. Filing of records by clerk
§ 8.01-440. Docketing and execution
§ 8.01-441. When judgment confessed by virtue of power of attorney invalid
§ 8.01-443. Joint wrongdoers; effect of judgment against one
§ 8.01-444. Where new parties added; if some not liable, how judgment entered
§ 8.01-445. Distinction between term and vacation abolished; effect of time
§ 8.01-446. Clerks to keep judgment dockets; what judgments to be docketed therein
§ 8.01-446.1. Keeping of docket books by clerk of court using micrographic process; form
§ 8.01-447. Docketing of judgments and decrees of United States courts
§ 8.01-448. Attorney General, etc., to have judgments in favor of Commonwealth docketed
§ 8.01-449. How judgments are docketed
§ 8.01-452. Entry of assignment of judgment on judgment lien docket
§ 8.01-452.1. Disposal of exhibits in civil cases
§ 8.01-453. When and how payment or discharge entered on judgment docket
§ 8.01-454. Judgment, when satisfied, to be so noted by creditor
§ 8.01-455. Court, on motion of defendant, etc., may have payment of judgment entered
§ 8.01-456. Satisfaction of judgment when judgment creditor cannot be located
§ 8.01-458. From what time judgment to be a lien on real estate; docketing revived judgment
§ 8.01-459. Priority of judgments
§ 8.01-461. Abstracts of judgments
§ 8.01-462. Jurisdiction of equity to enforce lien of judgment; when it may decree sale
§ 8.01-463. Enforcement of lien when judgment does not exceed $25,000
§ 8.01-464. Order of liability between alienees of different parts of estate
§ 8.01-465. Chapter embraces recognizances and bonds having force of judgment