Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 220 - Courts and Naturalization

Section 1 - Flags; Display in Courts - Section 1. The flag of the United States and the...

Section 2 - General Powers - Section 2. The courts of the commonwealth and the justices...

Section 3 - Conservators of Peace; Powers of Justices - Section 3. The justices of the supreme judicial court and...

Section 4 - First Day of Sitting; Designation - Section 4. In writs, processes, records and judicial proceedings, civil...

Section 5 - Change of Time and Place of Court; Notice - Section 5. If it is unsafe or inexpedient to hold...

Section 6 - Business Days; Exceptions - Section 6. The divisions of the departments of the trial...

Section 7 - Process Servers - Section 7. Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables and other officers shall...

Section 8 - Purchase of Claims by Attorney and Court Officers, etc., Prohibited; Penalty - Section 8. No attorney, justice of the peace, sheriff, deputy...

Section 9 - Criers - Section 9. Clerks or assistant clerks of courts, sheriffs or...

Section 10 - Judge, etc.; Interest of Town in Suit or Proceeding - Section 10. No person shall be disqualified from acting as...

Section 11 - United States Judicial Officer; Ineligibility for Certain Offices - Section 11. No person who holds a judicial office under...

Section 12 - Referee in Bankruptcy; Ineligibility for Certain Offices - Section 12. No person who holds the office of referee...

Section 13 - Exclusion of Minors as Spectators From Court Room - Section 13. Any court may exclude minors as spectators from...

Section 13a - Contempt Cases; Rights of Defendant - Section 13A. Any person who shall wilfully disobey any lawful...

Section 13b - Contempt Cases; Demand for Retirement of Justice Sitting - Section 13B. The defendant in any proceeding for contempt of...

Section 14 - Commitment for Contempt; Service of Process - Section 14. Commitments for contempt of court may be made...

Section 14a - Time Within Which Certain Decisions to Be Rendered - Section 14A. An associate justice of the superior court, who...

Section 15 - Jurisdiction - Section 15. The supreme judicial court and the superior court...

Section 18 - Declarations of Intention - Section 18. The superior court may authorize the execution and...