Art. 323 Writs executed on holiday

If you're involved in a civil court case, the sheriff generally cannot deliver or carry out court orders on legal holidays. This means most paperwork, like court judgments or standard orders, will wait until the next business day if a holiday falls on the scheduled date.

However, there are some exceptions. The sheriff can still act on holidays for certain urgent or property-related orders. These include writs of attachment (taking property to hold as security), sequestration (holding property during a dispute), fieri facias (seizing property to satisfy a debt), seizure and sale under executory process (used to collect on a mortgage or secured debt), and injunctions (court orders stopping someone from doing something).

In short, the rule protects most people from having sheriffs show up with legal paperwork on holidays. But if your case involves seizing property, collecting debts through certain legal processes, or stopping someone's actions through an injunction, the sheriff can still act even on a holiday.