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:\n'Virginia: In the clerk's office of the __________ court of the __________ of __________.\nThe foregoing (or attached) judgment was duly confessed before me in my said office on the __________ day of __________, two thousand and __________, at __________ o'clock __________ a.m., p.m. and has been duly entered of record in common-law order book number __________, page __________.\nTeste:\n____________________ clerk.'\nCode 1950, § 8-361; 1977, c. 617.
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