General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES |
TITLE I. COURTS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS |
CHAPTER 220. COURTS AND NATURALIZATION |
SECTION 1. Flags; display in courts |
SECTION 2. General powers |
SECTION 3. Conservators of peace; powers of justices |
SECTION 4. First day of sitting; designation |
SECTION 5. Change of time and place of court; notice |
SECTION 6. Business days; exceptions |
SECTION 7. Process servers |
SECTION 8. Purchase of claims by attorney and court officers, etc., prohibited; penalty |
SECTION 9. Criers |
SECTION 10. Judge, etc.; interest of town in suit or proceeding |
SECTION 11. United States judicial officer; ineligibility for certain offices |
SECTION 12. Referee in bankruptcy; ineligibility for certain offices |
SECTION 13. Exclusion of minors as spectators from court room |
SECTION 13A. Contempt cases; rights of defendant |
SECTION 13B. Contempt cases; demand for retirement of justice sitting |
SECTION 14. Commitment for contempt; service of process |
SECTION 14A. Time within which certain decisions to be rendered |
SECTION 15. Jurisdiction |
SECTION 16, 17. Repealed, 1932, 144, Sec. 3 |
SECTION 18. Declarations of intention |
SECTION 19. Repealed, 1932, 16 |