General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 214 Equity Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts General Laws - General equity jurisdiction; original and concurrent - Chapter 214, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Remedy in damages no bar to suit for specific performance of contract - Chapter 214, Section 1A
The fact that the plaintiff has a remedy in damages shall not bar an action for specific performance of a contract, other than one for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Right of privacy - Chapter 214, Section 1B
A person shall have a right against unreasonable, substantial or serious interference with his privacy. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Right to freedom from sexual harassment - Chapter 214, Section 1C
A person shall have the right to be free from sexual harassment, as defined in chapter one hundred and fifty-one B and one hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statutory jurisdiction - Chapter 214, Section 2
The supreme judicial court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all civil actions in which equitable relief is sought cognizable under any statute and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special jurisdiction - Chapter 214, Section 3
The supreme judicial and superior courts shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction of the following cases: (1) Actions to compel the redelivery of goods or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized use of name, portrait or picture of a person; injunctive relief; damages; exceptions - Chapter 214, Section 3A
Any person whose name, portrait or picture is used within the commonwealth for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade without his written consent...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fair information practices of public holders; violations of chapter 66A; remedies; limitation - Chapter 214, Section 3B
Any holder, as that term is defined in chapter sixty-six A, which violates any provision of said chapter sixty-six A, shall be liable to any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Process; issuance - Chapter 214, Section 4
Each court may, if necessary to secure justice and equity, issue to courts of inferior jurisdiction, corporations and persons all general and special writs and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Venue - Chapter 214, Section 5
Civil actions in which equitable relief is sought may be brought in any county in which a transitory action between the same parties might be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Labor disputes; injunctions; issuance; conditions precedent; procedural requisites - Chapter 214, Section 6
(1) No court shall have jurisdiction to issue a preliminary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdictional labor disputes; temporary injunctive relief; arbitration; definition - Chapter 214, Section 6A
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of section six so far as they may be applicable, a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction may be granted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of wills; notice - Chapter 214, Section 7
In actions for the construction of wills, or for instructions relative to wills the court may order notice of the action and of the time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Damage to the environment; temporary restraining order as additional remedy; definitions; requisites; procedure - Chapter 214, Section 7A
As used in this section, “damage to the environment” shall mean any destruction, damage or impairment, actual or probable, to any of the natural resources...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Noise pollution; shooting ranges; exemption from liability; hours of operation - Chapter 214, Section 7B
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, no owner of a rifle, pistol, silhouette, skeet, trap, blackpowder,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Determination by one justice - Chapter 214, Section 8
Civil actions in which equitable relief is sought and motions and other applications therein, whether interlocutory or final, shall in the first instance be heard...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acts and proceedings other than trials upon the merits - Chapter 214, Section 9
All acts and proceedings in civil actions other than trials upon the merits, wherever they may be conducted, shall be considered as taking place in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cases pending in another county; hearing - Chapter 214, Section 10
A justice of either court or the full court may, if necessary, hear and determine cases pending in a county other than that in which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - [There is no 214:10A.] - Chapter 214, Section 10A
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings for application of cy pres doctrine to failure of charitable gifts; deviation; notice; parties - Chapter 214, Section 10B
Upon a petition commenced after the death of the donor for the application cy pres to similar public charitable purposes of a gift for a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issues of fact to be tried by jury - Chapter 214, Section 11
The supreme judicial court, upon request of a party to a civil action in which equitable relief is sought, may frame issues of fact to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Summoning of jury - Chapter 214, Section 12
If there is no regular sitting of the supreme judicial court within three months after the framing of such issues, a justice thereof may order...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jury issues in superior court - Chapter 214, Section 13
The superior court, upon request of a party to a civil action in which equitable relief is sought pending therein, may frame issues of fact...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Continuous sitting of courts in Boston - Chapter 214, Section 14
A justice of the supreme judicial court and a justice of the superior court shall, at all convenient times, sit in Boston to hear and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Control of action - Chapter 214, Section 15
A justice of either court shall not dissolve an injunction issued by the other court, or by a justice thereof, or interpose in any action...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Writs of seisin and execution - Chapter 214, Section 16
The courts may issue writs of seisin and execution in common form if such process is appropriate for the enforcement of a judgment granting or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receiver’s bond - Chapter 214, Section 17
Where a bond is required of a receiver appointed by either court the provisions of section seven of chapter two hundred and three shall apply.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pending actions; taking papers from files - Chapter 214, Section 18
The original papers in a civil action pending in either court may be taken from the files in any county by counsel of record of...
Last modified: September 11, 2015