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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85484</law_id><section_number>8.01-438</section_number><catch_line>When judgment confessed by attorney-in-fact copy to be served on judgment debtor</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>If a judgment is confessed by an <span class="dictionary">attorney-in-<span class="dictionary">fact</span></span>, it shall be the duty of the clerk within ten days from the entry thereof to cause to be served upon the <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> a certified copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> so entered in the common-<span class="dictionary">law</span> <span class="dictionary">order</span> book, to which <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be appended a notice setting forth the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Setting aside judgments confessed under &#xA7; 8.01-432" href="/8.01-433/">8.01-433</a>. The officer who serves the <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall make return thereof within ten days after service to the clerk. The clerk shall promptly file the <span class="dictionary">order</span> with the papers in the case. The failure to serve a copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> within sixty days from the date of entry thereof shall render the judgment void as to any debtor not so served.
		Service of a copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> on a nonresident <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> by an officer of the county or city of his residence, authorized by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to serve processes therein, or by the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> sending a copy of the <span class="dictionary">order</span> by registered or certified mail to such nonresident <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span> at his last known post-office 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 letter by such nonresident <span class="dictionary">judgment debtor</span>, shall be deemed sufficient service thereof for the purposes of this section.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-362; 1972, c. 611; 1976, c. 617; 1988, c. 420.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
