2011 Code of Virginia
Title 8.01 CIVIL REMEDIES AND PROCEDURE.
Chapter 17 Judgments and Decrees Generally (8.01-426 thru 8.01-465)
8.01-431 Judgment or decree by confession in pending suit
8.01-431. Judgment or decree by confession in pending suit.
In any suit a defendant may, whether the suit be 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. And the clerk shall enter upon the margin of such book opposite where such judgment or decree is entered, the date and time of the day at which the same was confessed, and 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.)
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