Chap. 222.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, as heretofore amended, 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, in relation to
notice to be given after judgment confessed. [H B 247]

Approved March 23, 1936
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section

five 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
twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as_ heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5. When a judgment is so confessed, the clerk shall endorse
upon such confession, or attach thereto, his certificate in manner and
form substantially as follows:

Virginia: In the clerk’s office of the ............ court of the
Lovee ee eens Of .. cee eee ee ee eee

The foregoing (or attached) judgment was duly confessed before
me in my said office on the .... day of ............ , nineteen hundred
and .......... , at ....... o'clock ........... meridian, and has
been duly entered of record in common law order book number ..... ,
PARG sae we wes

Teste:
TTETETTCECELITTTErerrrT Tr rr ere , Clerk.”

If a judgment is confessed by an attorney in fact, it shall be the
duty of the clerk within ten days from the entry thereof, to cause to be
served upon the judgment debtor or debtors a certified copy of the
order so entered in the common law order book, and the officer who
serves the same shall make return thereof within ten days after such
service, to the clerk who shall promptly file the same with the papers
in the case, and note in the judgment lien docket when the judgment
is docketed, the date of such service and return, and if the same be
not returned “executed” within sixty days after the date of entry of
such judgment, he shall note such fact at the appropriate place in the
judgment lien docket. The failure to serve a copy of such order
within sixty days from the date of entry thereof shall render such
judgment void as to any debtor not so served. Service of a copy of
such order on a non-resident judgment debtor by an officer of the
county or city of his residence, authorized by law to serve processes
therein, or by the clerk of the court sending a copy of such order by
registered mail to such non-resident judgment debtor at his last known
postoffice address and the filing of a certificate with the papers in the
case showing that such has been done or of a receipt showing the
receipt of such registered letter by such non-resident judgment debtor,
shall be deemed sufficient service thereof for the purposes of this section.