Chap. 477.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3283 of the code of Virginia
in reference to judgments and decrees in vacation.

Approved February 24, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand two hundred and eighty-three of the code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3283.—Judgment or decree by confession in vacation; how entered;
its validity. —In any suit a defendant may, in vacation of the court,
and 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 or minute book, and be as
final and as valid as if entered in court on the day of such ‘confession,
except merely that the court shall have such control over it as is given
by section three thousand two hundred and ninety-three. And the said
clerk shall cuter upou the margin of such book opposite where the said judgq-
ment or deerce is entered, the date and time of the day at which the same was
confessed; aud the len of the said judgment or decree shall run only from the
time uf day of the confession,