Section 11. If no justice is present at the time and place appointed for holding a court at the beginning of a sitting or at an adjournment thereof, the sheriff of the county or any of his deputies may adjourn the court from day to day or from time to time, as circumstances require, or as ordered by any of the justices, and shall give notice of such adjournment by making public proclamation in the court house, and by a notice posted on the door of the court house or published in a newspaper.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 213 - Provisions Common to the Supreme Judicial and Superior Courts
Section 1 - Chief Justices; Vacancies
Section 1a - Concurrent Jurisdiction; Exception
Section 1b - Questions of Law; Reservation; Report to Appeals Court
Section 2 - Process; Issuance in Other Counties
Section 3 - Rules; Power to Make and Promulgate
Section 3a - Rules; Printing and Disposition of Copies
Section 4 - Courts Always Open
Section 5 - Transaction of Business in Any County
Section 6 - Duration of Sittings; Adjournments
Section 7 - Simultaneous Sessions
Section 8 - Accounts and Expenses; Allowance
Section 9 - Attendance of Justices
Section 10 - Adjournment to Another Shire Town
Section 11 - Adjournment in Absence of Justice; Sheriff's Duty
Section 12 - Written Order to Sheriff to Adjourn; Absence of Justice