§ 8.01-542.Issue and execution of attachment on any day.

This short section removes any question about timing: an attachment can be issued or executed on any day of the week, including a Sunday, and on any holiday.

Many kinds of legal process are restricted to business days, but attachment is not one of them here. That matters because the grounds for attachment, a debtor about to flee, convert property to cash, or hide assets, often present themselves without regard to the calendar, and a rule limiting attachments to weekdays would hand debtors an easy window to move property beyond reach.

By keeping attachment available every day, the statute matches the remedy’s emergency character: it exists to freeze assets before they disappear, and a debtor should not be able to outrun it by timing a transfer for a weekend.