CHAPTER 388

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-355 and 8-858 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the tume when liens of judgments attach in case of judg-
ments by confession.

[S 274]

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 8-855 and 8-858 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows: |

§ 8-855. In any suit a defendant may, whether the court be in vacation
or not 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 § 8-141. And the clerk shall enter upon the margin of such book op-
posite 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.

§ 8-358. The clerk shall enter on the margin of the record of any
judgment confessed under the provisions of § 8-356, the day and hour when
the same was confessed and the lien thereof shall attach and be binding
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!
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