Art. 2722.Advertisement of Sale

A seizure by itself does not put property up for sale -- the public has to know a sale is coming before it can happen. Article 2722 requires the sheriff to advertise the sale once the property has been seized, giving prospective bidders notice of what is being sold and when, so the property draws a fair price rather than being sold quietly to whoever happens to be watching.

Rather than writing a separate advertisement rule just for executory process, Article 2722 borrows the rule already written for the writ of fieri facias -- the process used to seize and sell a debtor's property to satisfy an ordinary money judgment -- by cross-referencing the first paragraph of Article 2331. That paragraph sets how the advertisement is published and how far in advance of the sale it has to run, and those same requirements now govern an executory-process sale as well.

This borrowing pattern repeats throughout the chapter. Rather than duplicating the judicial-sale machinery article by article, the Code plugs the executory-process sale into the same advertisement, appraisal, and sale-conduct rules that already apply to a fieri facias sale, with Article 2724 gathering up the rest of that cross-reference.