Va. Code § 8.01-439: Filing of records by clerk

Such confession and clerk's certificate, together with the power of attorney if the confession be by an attorney-in-fact, and the note, bond or other obligation, if there be such, on which the judgment is based, shall be securely attached together by the clerk and filed by him among the records in his office.Code 1950, § 8-363; 1977, c. 617.