Art. 2331.Publication of Notice of Sale

A sheriff's sale only draws a competitive price if the public knows about it in advance. Article 2331 builds that advance warning into the process by requiring published notice before the sale can go forward, with the number of publications keyed to what kind of property is on the block. Movable property needs one publication; immovable property, which typically carries more value and more competing claims, needs two. A court can order additional publications beyond that floor when the circumstances call for it.

Paragraph B trims that requirement for a sale that has already been through the publication cycle once. If a scheduled sale of immovable property is cancelled or postponed and later rescheduled, the sheriff only has to publish notice of the new date once, rather than repeating the full two-publication sequence from scratch.

Paragraph C adds a separate timing rule that runs earlier in the process. The sheriff cannot order the advertisement to begin until three days, not counting holidays, have passed since the judgment debtor was served with the notice of seizure required under Article 2293. That buffer gives the debtor a short window after learning of the seizure before the sale becomes public knowledge through advertising.