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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64834</law_id><section_number>8.01-434</section_number><catch_line>Lien of such judgments</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="17">Judgments and Decrees Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Judgments by Confession</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The clerk shall record in the proper book any judgment confessed under the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Confession of judgment irrespective of suit pending" href="/8.01-432/">8.01-432</a> and 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 <span class="dictionary">judgment lien docket</span> of the clerk&#x2019;s office of the county or city in which land of the <span class="dictionary">defendant</span> lies. If the credit was extended for personal, family or household purposes, the judgment shall not be a lien against the real estate of the obligor or the basis of obtaining execution against his personal property until the expiration of the 21-day period allowed the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> as set forth in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Setting aside judgments confessed under &#xA7; 8.01-432" href="/8.01-433/">8.01-433</a>. In the event the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> files a <span class="dictionary">motion</span> or other pleading within such 21-day period, the judgment shall not be a lien against such real estate or its basis of execution against personal property until an <span class="dictionary">order</span> to that effect is entered by the <span class="dictionary">court</span>. It will be presumed that the obligation is for personal, family or household purposes if the debtor is a natural <span class="dictionary">person</span>, unless the <span class="dictionary">plaintiff</span> or someone on his behalf makes <span class="dictionary">oath</span> or makes out and files an <span class="dictionary">affidavit</span> that the obligation was not for such purposes, or the obligation for which judgment is confessed recites that it is for other purposes.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-358; 1962, c. 388; 1970, c. 395; 1977, c. 617; 1986, c. 523; 2014, c. 330.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
