General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 212 The Superior Court
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number of superior court justices; chief justice; definitions - Chapter 212, Section 1
The superior court department of the trial court of the commonwealth, established pursuant to section 1 of chapter 211B, shall consist of 82 justices appointed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy court administrator - Chapter 212, Section 1A
The deputy court administrator as provided under section 1 of chapter 211B shall, subject to the superintendence authority of the supreme judicial court as provided...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Court; manner of holding - Chapter 212, Section 2
The court shall be held by one of the justices, and when so held shall have and exercise all the power and jurisdiction committed to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusive original jurisdiction - Chapter 212, Section 3
The court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of civil actions for the foreclosure of mortgages, and of real and mixed actions, except those of which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement to accompany complaint for civil action for damages - Chapter 212, Section 3A
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2004, 252, Sec. 23.] (a) A clerk-magistrate in the superior court shall not accept for filing a complaint...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Original jurisdiction - Chapter 212, Section 4
The court shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions, except those of which other courts have exclusive original jurisdiction.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appellate civil jurisdiction - Chapter 212, Section 5
The court shall have jurisdiction of all civil actions and proceedings which are legally brought before it by appeal or removal.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal jurisdiction - Chapter 212, Section 6
The court shall have original jurisdiction of all crimes. Crimes committed in that part of Scituate described in chapter three hundred and ninety-four of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Indictments; transmittal - Chapter 212, Section 7
The clerk of the courts for the county in which an indictment for a capital crime has been entered, or, in the county of Suffolk,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Security in civil or criminal cases to stand on appeal - Chapter 212, Section 8
If an appeal or a bill of exceptions in a case, civil or criminal, has been duly entered in the appeals court or supreme judicial...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Orders or decrees of supreme judicial court; recording - Chapter 212, Section 9
Orders or decrees of the supreme judicial court upon questions arising in a case pending in the superior court shall be entered of record in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 53 - Chapter 212, Section 10
Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1929, 265, Sec. 4 - Chapter 212, Section 11
Repealed, 1929, 265, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Affirmation of judgment on non-entry of appeal - Chapter 212, Section 12
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2004, 252, Sec. 23.] If, upon an appeal in a civil action authorized by law, the appellant fails...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Late entry of appeal - Chapter 212, Section 13
If, by mistake or accident, an appeal to the superior court is not duly entered therein, or if, for a like reason, a complaint founded...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sittings of court; places - Chapter 212, Section 14
A regular sitting or regular sittings of the court in the several counties shall be held in each year in each of the following places:—...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sittings; first justices; powers and duties; terms; removal - Chapter 212, Section 14A
Subject to section fourteen of chapter two hundred and fourteen, the chief justice of the superior court department shall establish from time to time a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 119 - Chapter 212, Section 14B
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 56 - Chapter 212, Section 14C
Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 119 - Chapter 212, Section 14D to 14F
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 144, Sec. 3 - Chapter 212, Section 15 to 18
Repealed, 1932, 144, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1923, 262, Sec. 2 - Chapter 212, Section 18A
Repealed, 1923, 262, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Clerk’s office - Chapter 212, Section 19
The clerks of the courts, and in Suffolk county of the superior court department, may maintain regularly established offices in such cities and towns as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special master - Chapter 212, Section 19A
The justices of the superior court may appoint for a term of five years, and may at any time for cause remove, a special master,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil and criminal business; separation; jurors - Chapter 212, Section 20
Except as provided in section twenty-nine, in counties in which separate sittings of the court are established for civil and criminal business, criminal cases only...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Central pools of jurors - Chapter 212, Section 20A
The superior court may in counties where more than one session is held simultaneously for civil or criminal business or for civil and criminal business...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special jury sittings for criminal business - Chapter 212, Section 21
The chief justice may, by written order to the sheriff, order a special jury for a sitting for criminal business to be held in any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Return day in criminal cases - Chapter 212, Section 22
Every Monday shall be a return day in the superior court department for the entry of suits upon recognizances and bonds in criminal cases held...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Grand jury; assembling - Chapter 212, Section 23
The chief justice may, by written order to the sheriff, cause the grand jury in any county to be assembled at a time and place...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Precedence of certain prosecutions - Chapter 212, Section 24
At a sitting of the court at which criminal business may be transacted, cases arising under chapters one hundred and nineteen, two hundred and forty-eight,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Continuance of sitting - Chapter 212, Section 25
If a case is on trial at the end of a sitting, such sitting may be continued, and jurors serving in such case may be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records; custody - Chapter 212, Section 26
The records of courts which are transferred to the superior court shall remain in custody of its clerks. In Suffolk county, the clerk of said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Land title actions; jury-waived civil actions; transfer to land court - Chapter 212, Section 26A
The superior court may, upon the application of either party, order a jury-waived civil action where any right, title or interest in land is involved,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 125 - Chapter 212, Section 27 28
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1949, 654, Sec. 2 - Chapter 212, Section 28A
Repealed, 1949, 654, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Speedy trial of persons held in default of bail - Chapter 212, Section 29
A prisoner held in jail for trial upon an indictment for an offence not punishable by death or by imprisonment for life, or so held...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Labor dispute cases; panel of justices; hearing; review - Chapter 212, Section 30
In any action or proceeding involving or arising under section twenty B, twenty C or twenty-four of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, or section six...
Last modified: September 11, 2015