§ 58-423. Private sale - Notice of - Bids.

When a sale of real property is ordered to be made at private sale, notice of such sale must be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper in each county in which any part of the land to be sold is situated, and in the county where the order is made and by mailing a copy of the notice to all heirs, legatees and devises of the decedent whose addresses are known.  The notice of sale shall describe the real property to be sold with common certainty, and must set a day on or after which the sale will be made, and the place where offers or bids will be received.  The date last referred to must be at least ten (10) days from the first publication of notice, and the sale must not be made before that day, but must be made within one (1) year thereafter.  The bids or offers must be in writing, and may be left at the place designated in the notice or delivered to the executor or administrator personally at any time after the first publication of notice, and before the making of the sale.

R.L. 1910, § 6383; Laws 1953, p. 239, § 33; Laws 1955, p. 300, § 4; Laws 1963, c. 282, § 1, emerg. eff. June 18, 1963; Laws 1969, c. 302, § 16, eff. Jan. 1, 1970; Laws 1979, c. 258, § 10, eff. Oct. 1, 1979; Laws 1988, c. 329, § 130, eff. Nov. 1, 1988; Laws 1992, c. 395, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.