a. Law. [ad. L. confessōri-us, f. confessōr-em: see -ORY.] Pertaining to confession or acknowledgement. (Cf. L. actio confessōria.)
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 221. Now of Actions civill … some are confessory, and some negative, confessory, as where one affirms a corporall or incorporall thing to be his.
