Bonnett-Brown Corporation v. . Coble

At common law one of the methods of confessing judgment was by means of a written authority directed to one or more attorneys to appear for the party executing it and to receive a declaration for him in an action at the suit of a person named therein, and thereupon to confess the same or to suffer judgment to pass by default. The writing was known as a warrant of attorney. As a rule it was given as security for the obligation upon which judgment was authorized, and the service of process was not essential. Cuykendall v. Doe, 3 L. R. A. (N. S.), 449. The practice is now recognized in some of…