Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts

Section 26 - Physicians or Unregistered Practitioners Convicted of Crimes; Clerk to Report Convictions to Board of Registration in Medicine - Section 26. The clerk of any court in which a...

Section 27 - Extension of Papers on Record - Section 27. The supreme judicial court shall by rule or...

Section 27a - Obsolete or Useless Papers; Disposition, Destruction or Storage - Section 27A. The supreme judicial court may by rule or...

Section 28 - Records; Duty of Clerk to Exhibit - Section 28. The clerks of the courts in the several...

Section 29 - Records; Duty of Justices to Inspect - Section 29. The justices of the several courts shall inspect...

Section 30 - Forfeiture of Bond - Section 30. If any neglect causes a forfeiture of the...

Section 31 - Misconduct in Office; Liability - Section 31. The two preceding sections shall not exempt a...

Section 32 - Fees; Duty of Clerks to Account - Section 32. The clerks of the courts in the several...

Section 33 - Assistant Clerk; Duties - Section 33. Each assistant clerk shall under the direction of...

Section 34a - Establishment; Purpose; Membership; Term - Section 34A. There shall be a judicial council for the...

Section 34b - Reports to Governor; Rules of Practice and Procedure - Section 34B. The judicial council shall report annually on or...

Section 34c - Compensation; Clerical Expenses - Section 34C. No member of said council, except as hereinafter...

Section 34e - Members, Terms; Executive Director; Legal Advisors; Volunteer Legal Assistance Program; Information Program; Procedures; Funds - Section 34E. The justices of the supreme judicial court shall...

Section 35 - Appointment; Statements of Financial Interest - Section 35. There shall be a board of bar examiners...

Section 36 - Examinations for Admission to Bar; Eligibility; Board Expenses - Section 36. Said board may, subject to the approval of...

Section 36a - Admission to the Bar; Educational Requirements of World War II Veterans - Section 36A. No rule requiring that an applicant for admission...

Section 37 - Petition for Examination for Admission to the Bar; Fees - Section 37. A citizen of the United States, if over...

Section 38 - Oath of Office - Section 38. Whoever is admitted as an attorney shall in...

Section 38a - Aliens; Petitions and Examinations - Section 38A. Every alien who has made the primary declaration...

Section 39 - Attorneys From Sister States; Conditions for Admissions - Section 39. A citizen of the United States, whether man...

Section 40 - Removal; Grounds; Expenses - Section 40. An attorney may be removed by the supreme...

Section 41 - Unauthorized Practice of Law; Solicitation of Business; Penalty - Section 41. Whoever has been so removed and continues thereafter...

Section 42 - Standing of Attorneys; Records - Section 42. The clerk of the supreme judicial court for...

Section 43 - Claims for Damages; Solicitation Prohibited - Section 43. No attorney at law shall, through any runner,...

Section 44 - Disqualification for Violation of Sec. 43 - Section 44. If it appears to the satisfaction of the...

Section 44a - Employees of Hospitals or Other Medical Institutions; Communication With Attorney Concerning Personal Injury Cases - Section 44A. No person in the employ of, or in...

Section 44b - Copies of Sec. 44a; Furnishing to Hospitals; Posting - Section 44B. The superintendent or other person in immediate charge...

Section 45 - Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs and Constables; Practice of Law Prohibited - Section 45. A sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable who appears...

Section 46 - Practice of Law by Corporations; Prohibition; Exception - Section 46. No corporation or association shall practice or appear...

Section 46a - Practice of Law; Persons Authorized - Section 46A. No individual, other than a member, in good...

Section 46b - Jurisdiction to Restrain Violation of Sec. 46, 46a or 46c - Section 46B. The supreme judicial court and the superior court...

Section 46c - Furnishing Services to Debtor in Debt Pooling Plan; Unauthorized Practice of Law - Section 46C. The furnishing of advice or services for and...

Section 46d - Credit Counseling Corporations, Applicability of Secs. 46 to 46c - Section 46D. The provisions of sections forty-six, forty-six A, forty-six...

Section 48 - Prosecution or Defense of Own Suits; Restriction - Section 48. Parties may manage, prosecute or defend their own...

Section 50 - Attorney's Lien for Fees; Enforcement - Section 50. From the authorized commencement of an action, counterclaim...

Section 50a - Discharge of State or Political Subdivision From Liability for Attorney's Lien - Section 50A. Payment by the commonwealth or by any political...

Section 50b - Claims; Summary Determination - Section 50B. The court shall determine all claims in a...

Section 51 - Failure to Pay Client's Money; Penalty - Section 51. An attorney at law who unreasonably neglects to...

Section 52 - Disqualification of Attorney to Act in Suits Previously Decided by Him - Section 52. No person shall be employed or allowed to...

Section 53 - Masters in Chancery - Section 53. The governor, with the advice and consent of...

Section 54 - Completion of Business on Expiration of Commission - Section 54. A master may complete any unfinished proceedings and...

Section 55 - Compensation of Masters, Etc. - Section 55. The supreme judicial court, the superior court or...

Section 57 - Masters; Appointment - Section 57. When a civil action is at issue and...

Section 58 - Masters; Hearings; Reports; Judgment - Section 58. Masters shall give notice to the parties of...

Section 59 - Auditors; Discharge by Court - Section 59. The court may for cause discharge the auditors...

Section 61 - Masters; Compensation and Travel Expenses - Section 61. The court shall award reasonable compensation and allow...

Section 62 - Reports of Masters - Section 62. Masters appointed by the probate and family court...

Section 62a - Masters; Death or Incapacity; Compensation - Section 62A. If a master appointed by the probate and...

Section 62b - Clerks of Courts as Magistrates - Section 62B. Clerks of court for the several counties, the...

Section 62c - Magistrates; Powers and Duties - Section 62C. A magistrate designated under the previous section, in...

Section 63 - Appointment; Tenure - Section 63. There shall be a reporter of decisions of...

Section 64 - Preparation of Reports; Time of Publication - Section 64. He shall attend the law sittings of the...

Section 64a - Printing or Publication in Electronic Format and Sale of Reports of Decisions of Supreme Judicial and Appeals Courts; Advertisement for Bids; Award and Execution of Contracts; Performance Bond - Section 64A. The reporter shall from time to time advertise...

Section 65 - Style of Reports - Section 65. The volumes of reports shall be styled ''Massachusetts...

Section 66 - Opinions; Duration and Manner of Keeping - Section 66. The commonwealth shall provide a safe and convenient...

Section 67 - Deputy Reporter - Section 67. If the reporter is prevented from attending at...

Section 68 - Compensation of Reporter - Section 68. The reporter shall receive from the commonwealth a...

Section 69 - Number; Compensation for Attendance - Section 69. Not more than 4 deputy sheriffs or court...

Section 69a - Court Officer Appointments and Removals; Security of John Adams Courthouse - Section 69A. (a) The chief justice of the supreme judicial...

Section 70 - Appointment; Security of John Adams Courthouse - Section 70. Subject to appropriation, the court administrator may appoint...

Section 70a - Court Officers; Performance of Police Powers and Duties - Section 70A. Court officers and those authorized to act as...

Section 71 - Chief Deputy Sheriff for Suffolk, Middlesex and Hampden; Chief Court Officer for Hampden, Norfolk and Worcester Counties - Section 71. The chief justice of the trial court shall...

Section 71a - Assistant Chief Court Officers in Suffolk County - Section 71A. The court administrator may designate three of the...

Section 72 - Tenure - Section 72. Officers appointed as court officers to attend upon...

Section 73 - Compensation in Suffolk County Land Court and Probate Court - Section 73. The officer in attendance upon the land court...

Section 73b - Compensation in Suffolk County Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court - Section 73B. Each officer in attendance upon the supreme judicial...

Section 75 - Deputy Sheriffs and Constables; Compensation - Section 75. The compensation of deputy sheriffs not on salary...

Section 76 - Administrative Assistant and Messengers in Suffolk County; Appointment; Compensation; Duties - Section 76. The administrative assistant to the justices of the...

Section 76a - Superior Court in Suffolk County; Assistant Messenger - Section 76A. The justices of the superior court may appoint...

Section 77 - Premiums on Official Bonds; Payment - Section 77. Premiums on bonds of court officers and deputy...

Section 78 - Supreme Judicial Court in Suffolk County; Service of Venires; Bond - Section 78. Any officer in attendance upon the supreme judicial...

Section 79 - Witnesses; Summoning in Suffolk and Worcester; Expenses - Section 79. Officers in attendance upon the sessions of the...

Section 80 - Uniforms of Court Officers - Section 80. Court officers receiving stated salaries and deputy sheriffs...

Section 81 - Double Compensation Prohibited - Section 81. No deputy sheriff or constable receiving a salary...

Section 82 - Appointment of Stenographers in Superior Court - Section 82. The justices of the superior court shall appoint...

Section 83 - Temporary Stenographers; Fees - Section 83. The presiding justice at any sitting, trial or...

Section 86 - Stenographer for Grand Jury; Appointment; Custody of Notes; Costs - Section 86. A justice of the superior court may, upon...

Section 87 - Duties of Stenographers; Regulations - Section 87. The justices of the superior court may make...

Section 88 - Furnishing Transcripts of Notes; Fees - Section 88. Upon request of the presiding justice or any...

Section 89 - Clerical Assistants - Section 89. The justices of the superior court from time...

Section 90a - Services Rendered Outside Appointing County; Compensation; Statement - Section 90A. When a salaried official stenographer renders service in...

Section 91 - Superior Courts; Compensation of Stenographers - Section 91. Official stenographers, and all additional and temporary stenographers,...

Section 91b - Employment of Stenographer by Defendant; Admissibility of Transcripts of Notes; Application of Section - Section 91B. At any hearing or proceeding in connection with...

Section 91c - Appointment of Stenographer in Civil Cases Before Auditor or Master; Admissibility of Transcripts - Section 91C. Any party to a civil proceeding assigned to...

Section 91d - Court Reporters; Practices; Contracts - Section 91D. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 92 - Appointment of Interpreters; Compensation - Section 92. The justices of the superior court may appoint...

Section 92a - Interpreters for the Deaf or Hearing-Impaired; Court Proceedings; Arrests; Admissibility of Evidence; Fees and Expenses; Privileged Communications - Section 92A. In any proceeding in any court in which...

Section 93 - Supreme Judicial Court; Salaries of Clerks - Section 93. The salary of the clerk of the supreme...

Section 94 - Manner of Payment; Salaries of Clerks and Assistant Clerks - Section 94. Except as provided in section ninety-three and except...

Section 99 - Traveling Expenses - Section 99. Clerks and assistant clerks of courts shall receive...

Section 100 - Temporary and Assistant Clerks; Salaries - Section 100. Each temporary clerk shall be paid by the...

Section 101 - Salaries as Full Compensation - Section 101. Except as otherwise provided, the salaries of clerks...

Section 102 - Clerical Assistance - Section 102. The clerks of the courts in the several...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts

Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts