Rule 2961.Application of Amendments to Pending Actions.

In 1996 the Supreme Court amended this chapter in two ways, and this rule says which cases each change reaches. The amendments prohibiting a confessed judgment for money in connection with a consumer credit transaction apply to actions commenced after the effective date set in the Court’s order. The amendments governing execution on a confessed money judgment apply to executions commenced after that date. The test for each is when the action or the execution began.

The Official Notes map the changes. The consumer-credit prohibition came through amendments to Rules 2950, 2951 and 2952; Rule 2950 now leaves out any instrument a natural person executes in connection with a consumer credit transaction. The execution and relief changes came through Rules 2956.1 to 2959 and 2963 to 2967, which hold today’s notice procedure for execution. This rule was itself amended by the order of April 1, 1996, effective July 1, 1996.