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2014 Massachusetts General Laws
PART III COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
TITLE I COURTS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS
CHAPTER 211 THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
- Section 1 Number of justices
- Section 2 Quorum
- Section 2A Statement of expenses and costs
- Section 3 Superintendence of inferior courts; power to issue writs and process
- Section 3A Administrative assistant
- Section 3B Conferences of judges
- Section 3C to 3F Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 99
- Section 3G Repealed, 1988, 164, Sec. 138; 1988, 206, Sec. 3
- Section 4 Removal of officers
- Section 4A Transfer of causes between supreme judicial court and lower courts
- Section 5 Questions of law; hearing by full court
- Section 6 Questions of law; reservation
- Section 7 Questions of law; argument; order
- Section 8 Judgment or rescript after decision
- Section 9 Records and rescripts; contents
- Section 10 Frivolous appeals; costs and interest
- Section 11 Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 50
- Section 12 Law sittings; adjournments
- Section 13 Repealed, 1961, 106, Sec. 2
- Section 14 Transfer of cases by full court
- Section 15 Criminal cases; hearings
- Section 16 Hearing in Boston of questions arising in other counties
- Section 17 Jury sittings; times and places of sittings
- Section 18 Sittings at Fall River; adjournments
- Section 19 Dukes or Nantucket county cases; place of trial
- Section 20 Powers of justices at jury and law sittings
- Section 21 Audit of accounts
- Section 22 Salaries of justices; expenses; practice of law prohibited
- Section 23 Court employees
- Section 24 Services of retired justices
- Section 25 Disability benefits project
- Section 26 Program for evaluation of judicial performance
- Section 26A Questionnaires for performance evaluation program; contents; distribution, collection, etc.; frequency of evaluations
- Section 26B Judicial evaluation standards; disciplinary procedures
- Section 27 Pre-service and in-service training programs for justices; administration
- Section 28 Leave of absence for study, research, etc.; restrictions
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