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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85501</law_id><section_number>8.01-436</section_number><catch_line>Form of confession of judgment</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>On the presentation of any such <span class="dictionary">power of attorney</span> as is mentioned in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Who may confess judgment" href="/8.01-435/">8.01-435</a> by any of the <span class="dictionary">persons</span> therein named as <span class="dictionary">attorney-in-<span class="dictionary">fact</span></span>, or on the personal <span class="dictionary">appearance</span> of the debtor and the expression by him of his desire to confess such <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> mentioned in such <span class="dictionary">power of attorney</span>, or before whom such debtor shall so appear, shall draw and require the <span class="dictionary">attorney-in-<span class="dictionary">fact</span></span> so appearing, or the debtor, as the case may be, to sign a <span class="dictionary">confession</span> of <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, which shall be in form substantially as follows:
		&#x201C;Virginia: In the clerk&#x2019;s office of the __________ <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the __________ of __________, I, (or we) A.B., (or A.B. and C.D., etc.) hereby acknowledged myself (or ourselves) to be justly indebted to, and do hereby confess <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> in favor of (name of <span class="dictionary">creditor</span>) in the sum of __________ dollars ($_____) with interest thereon from the __________ day of __________, two thousand __________, until paid, and the cost of this proceeding (including the attorney&#x2019;s fees and collection fees provided for in the instrument on which the proceeding is based) hereby waiving the benefit of my (or our) homestead exemptions as to the same, provided the instrument on which the proceeding is based carries such homestead <span class="dictionary">waiver</span>.
		Given under my (or our) hand, this __________ day of __________, two thousand and __________
		(Signatures)
		or, if by an <span class="dictionary">attorney-in-<span class="dictionary">fact</span></span>, signatures and seals of debtors,
		By ____________________
		his (or their) <span class="dictionary">attorney-in-<span class="dictionary">fact</span></span>.&#x201D;</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-360; 1977, c. 617.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
