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CONFESSING ERROR Definition & Legal Meaning

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A plea to an assignment of error, admitting the same. CONFESSO, BILL TAKEN PRO. In equity practice. An order which the court of chancery makes when the defendant does not file an answer, that the plaintiff may take such a decree as the case made by his bill warrants.

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