Any person being indebted to another person, or any attorney-in-fact pursuant to a power of attorney, may at any time confess judgment in the clerk's office of any circuit court in this Commonwealth, whether a suit, motion or action be pending therefor or not, for only such principal and interest as his creditor may be willing to accept a judgment for, which judgment, when so confessed, shall be forthwith entered of record by the clerk in whose office it is confessed, in the proper order book of his court. Such judgment shall be as final and as binding as though confessed in open court or rendered by the court, subject to the control of the court in the clerk's office of which the same shall have been confessed.
Code 1950, § 8-356; 1977, c. 617.
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