700. The demand to vacate a sheriff’s sale, which is a proceeding incidental to the execution, must be made by motion served on all the interested parties within 90 days of adjudication. This time limit is peremptory; nevertheless, the court may, provided not more than six months have elapsed since the adjudication, relieve from the consequences of his default a party who shows that in fact it was impossible for him to act sooner.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 700; 1999, c. 40, s. 56.