confession of judgment

1. 1.

   a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings

   Synonymsconfession of judgementcognovit judgmentcognovit judgement

   Broaderjudgment

   law

Questions about confession of judgment

What does confession of judgment mean?

confession of judgment means "a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings".

What is another word for confession of judgment?

Close synonyms include confession of judgement, cognovit judgment, cognovit judgement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is confession of judgment a common word?

confession of judgment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.