Rule 2955.Confession of Judgment.

The confession is the paper the judgment rests on: under Rule 2956 the prothonotary enters judgment in conformity with it. This rule requires the plaintiff to file it with the complaint, substantially in the form Rule 2962 prints. That form recites the authority of the warrant of attorney and lists the sums confessed.

Subdivision (b) answers who signs. The form has the signer appear for the defendant and confess judgment, and the plaintiff’s own attorney may sign in that role, as attorney for the defendant, unless an Act of Assembly or the instrument provides otherwise. So a statute, or the instrument’s own terms, can take that option away.

The Official Note adds that some counties require, by local rule, an affidavit of non-military service, and it points to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.