Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 212 - The Superior Court

Section 1 - Number of Superior Court Justices; Chief Justice; Definitions - Section 1. The superior court department of the trial court...

Section 1a - Deputy Court Administrator - Section 1A. The deputy court administrator as provided under section...

Section 2 - Court; Manner of Holding - Section 2. The court shall be held by one of...

Section 3 - Exclusive Original Jurisdiction - [See Standing Order of the Supreme Court, dated July 17,...

Section 3a - Statement to Accompany Complaint for Civil Action for Damages - Section 3A. (a) A clerk-magistrate in the superior court shall...

Section 4 - Original Jurisdiction - Section 4. The court shall have original jurisdiction of all...

Section 5 - Appellate Civil Jurisdiction - Section 5. The court shall have jurisdiction of all civil...

Section 6 - Criminal Jurisdiction - Section 6. The court shall have original jurisdiction of all...

Section 7 - Indictments; Transmittal - Section 7. The clerk of the courts for the county...

Section 8 - Security in Civil or Criminal Cases to Stand on Appeal - Section 8. If an appeal or a bill of exceptions...

Section 9 - Orders or Decrees of Supreme Judicial Court; Recording - Section 9. Orders or decrees of the supreme judicial court...

Section 12 - Affirmation of Judgment on Non-Entry of Appeal - Section 12. If, upon an appeal in a civil action...

Section 13 - Late Entry of Appeal - Section 13. If, by mistake or accident, an appeal to...

Section 14 - Sittings of Court; Places - Section 14. A regular sitting or regular sittings of the...

Section 14a - Sittings; First Justices; Powers and Duties; Terms; Removal - Section 14A. Subject to section fourteen of chapter two hundred...

Section 19 - Clerk's Office - Section 19. The clerks of the courts, and in Suffolk...

Section 19a - Special Master - Section 19A. The justices of the superior court may appoint...

Section 20 - Civil and Criminal Business; Separation; Jurors - Section 20. Except as provided in section twenty-nine, in counties...

Section 20a - Central Pools of Jurors - Section 20A. The superior court may in counties where more...

Section 21 - Special Jury Sittings for Criminal Business - Section 21. The chief justice may, by written order to...

Section 22 - Return Day in Criminal Cases - Section 22. Every Monday shall be a return day in...

Section 23 - Grand Jury; Assembling - Section 23. The chief justice may, by written order to...

Section 24 - Precedence of Certain Prosecutions - Section 24. At a sitting of the court at which...

Section 25 - Continuance of Sitting - Section 25. If a case is on trial at the...

Section 26 - Records; Custody - Section 26. The records of courts which are transferred to...

Section 26a - Land Title Actions; Jury-Waived Civil Actions; Transfer to Land Court - Section 26A. The superior court may, upon the application of...

Section 29 - Speedy Trial of Persons Held in Default of Bail - Section 29. A prisoner held in jail for trial upon...

Section 30 - Labor Dispute Cases; Panel of Justices; Hearing; Review - Section 30. In any action or proceeding involving or arising...