Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 211 - The Supreme Judicial Court

Section 1 - Number of Justices - Section 1. The supreme judicial court shall consist of one...

Section 2 - Quorum - Section 2. The full court shall be the supreme judicial...

Section 2a - Statement of Expenses and Costs - Section 2A. The chief justice of the supreme judicial court...

Section 3 - Superintendence of Inferior Courts; Power to Issue Writs and Process - Section 3. The supreme judicial court shall have general superintendence...

Section 3a - Administrative Assistant - Section 3A. The justices of the supreme judicial court may...

Section 3b - Conferences of Judges - Section 3B. The justices of the supreme judicial court may...

Section 4 - Removal of Officers - Section 4. A majority of the justices may, if in...

Section 4a - Transfer of Causes Between Supreme Judicial Court and Lower Courts - Section 4A. The supreme judicial court or a justice thereof...

Section 5 - Questions of Law; Hearing by Full Court - Section 5. Questions of law arising upon exceptions, report, or...

Section 6 - Questions of Law; Reservation - Section 6. Questions of law arising upon a trial or...

Section 7 - Questions of Law; Argument; Order - Section 7. Unless the court for cause shown directs otherwise,...

Section 8 - Judgment or Rescript After Decision - Section 8. The full court shall, as soon as may...

Section 9 - Records and Rescripts; Contents - Section 9. The records and rescripts which are made after...

Section 10 - Frivolous Appeals; Costs and Interest - Section 10. If, upon the hearing of an appeal in...

Section 12 - Law Sittings; Adjournments - Section 12. The supreme judicial court shall hold sittings for...

Section 14 - Transfer of Cases by Full Court - Section 14. The full court sitting in any county, or...

Section 15 - Criminal Cases; Hearings - Section 15. The exceptions alleged at the trial of a...

Section 16 - Hearing in Boston of Questions Arising in Other Counties - Section 16. If the justice before whom an action or...

Section 17 - Jury Sittings; Times and Places of Sittings - Section 17. Jury sittings of the court shall be held...

Section 18 - Sittings at Fall River; Adjournments - Section 18. If the public business so requires, the court...

Section 19 - Dukes or Nantucket County Cases; Place of Trial - Section 19. An action, suit or proceeding arising or pending...

Section 20 - Powers of Justices at Jury and Law Sittings - Section 20. Four or more justices present at a jury...

Section 21 - Audit of Accounts - Section 21. The full court, sitting for the commonwealth, shall...

Section 22 - Salaries of Justices; Expenses; Practice of Law Prohibited - Section 22. The chief justice shall receive a salary of...

Section 23 - Court Employees - Section 23. The justices of the court shall be allowed...

Section 24 - Services of Retired Justices - Section 24. (a) A retired chief justice or associate justice...

Section 25 - Disability Benefits Project - Section 25. There is hereby created under the superintendence of...

Section 26 - Program for Evaluation of Judicial Performance - Section 26. A majority of the supreme judicial court, in...

Section 26a - Questionnaires for Performance Evaluation Program; Contents; Distribution, Collection, etc.; Frequency of Evaluations - Section 26A. The program for performance evaluation, as described in...

Section 26b - Judicial Evaluation Standards; Disciplinary Procedures - Section 26B. The majority of the supreme judicial court shall...

Section 27 - Pre-Service and In-Service Training Programs for Justices; Administration - Section 27. The supreme judicial court may adopt rules requiring...

Section 28 - Leave of Absence for Study, Research, etc.; Restrictions - Section 28. The chief justice of the supreme judicial court...