Section 1. The supreme judicial and superior courts shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction of all cases and matters of equity cognizable under the general principles of equity jurisprudence and, with reference thereto, shall be courts of general equity jurisdiction, except that the superior court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all actions in which injunctive relief is sought in any matter involving or growing out of a labor dispute as defined in section twenty C of chapter one hundred and forty-nine.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 214 - Equity Jurisdiction
Section 1 - General Equity Jurisdiction; Original and Concurrent
Section 1a - Remedy in Damages No Bar to Suit for Specific Performance of Contract
Section 1c - Right to Freedom From Sexual Harassment
Section 2 - Statutory Jurisdiction
Section 3 - Special Jurisdiction
Section 6 - Labor Disputes; Injunctions; Issuance; Conditions Precedent; Procedural Requisites
Section 6a - Jurisdictional Labor Disputes; Temporary Injunctive Relief; Arbitration; Definition
Section 7 - Construction of Wills; Notice
Section 7b - Noise Pollution; Shooting Ranges; Exemption From Liability; Hours of Operation
Section 8 - Determination by One Justice
Section 9 - Acts and Proceedings Other Than Trials Upon the Merits
Section 10 - Cases Pending in Another County; Hearing
Section 11 - Issues of Fact to Be Tried by Jury
Section 12 - Summoning of Jury
Section 13 - Jury Issues in Superior Court
Section 14 - Continuous Sitting of Courts in Boston
Section 15 - Control of Action