Chap. 158.—An ACT to amend and re- -enact Section 1 of an act entitled “an act
to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court
of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure
thereon,” approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended. [S B 229]

Approved March 12, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one of an act entitled “an act to regulate the confession of judg-
ment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Com-
monwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon,” ap-
proved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-

lows:
Section 1. Any person being indebted to another person, may at
any time confess judgment in the clerks office of any court of record
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, and 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 which
rendered, and may be set aside or reduced upon motion of the judg-
ment debtor made at the next term of court following notice to him
that such judgment had been entered against him, and after ten
days’ notice to the judgment creditors, on any grounds which would
have been an adequate defense or set-off in an action at law instituted
upon the judgment creditor’s note, bond or other evidence of debt
upon which such judgment was confessed. Whenever any such
judgment is set aside the cause shall be placed on the trial docket of
the court, and the proceedings thereon shall thereafter be the same
as if an action at law had been instituted upon the bond, note or
other evidence of debt upon which judgment was confessed, and after
such cause is so docketed the Court shall make such order as to
the pleadings, future proceedings and costs as to the court may seem
just.