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2022 Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers
Chapter 220 - Courts and Naturalization
- Section 1 - Flags; Display in Courts
- Section 2 - General Powers
- Section 3 - Conservators of Peace; Powers of Justices
- Section 4 - First Day of Sitting; Designation
- Section 5 - Change of Time and Place of Court; Notice
- Section 6 - Business Days; Exceptions
- Section 7 - Process Servers
- Section 8 - Purchase of Claims by Attorney and Court Officers, etc., Prohibited; Penalty
- Section 9 - Criers
- Section 10 - Judge, etc.; Interest of Town in Suit or Proceeding
- Section 11 - United States Judicial Officer; Ineligibility for Certain Offices
- Section 12 - Referee in Bankruptcy; Ineligibility for Certain Offices
- Section 13 - Exclusion of Minors as Spectators From Court Room
- Section 13a - Contempt Cases; Rights of Defendant
- Section 13b - Contempt Cases; Demand for Retirement of Justice Sitting
- Section 14 - Commitment for Contempt; Service of Process
- Section 14a - Time Within Which Certain Decisions to Be Rendered
- Section 15 - Jurisdiction
- Section 16, 17 - Repealed, 1932, 144, Sec. 3
- Section 18 - Declarations of Intention
- Section 19 - Repealed, 1932, 16
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