General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 220 Courts and Naturalization

• Massachusetts General Laws - Flags; display in courts - Chapter 220, Section 1
  The flag of the United States and the flag of the commonwealth shall be displayed in every court of justice of the commonwealth while court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General powers - Chapter 220, Section 2
  The courts of the commonwealth and the justices thereof shall have and exercise all the powers necessary for the performance of their duties. They may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conservators of peace; powers of justices - Chapter 220, Section 3
  The justices of the supreme judicial court and of the superior court, justices and special justices of district courts, by virtue of their offices, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - First day of sitting; designation - Chapter 220, Section 4
  In writs, processes, records and judicial proceedings, civil or criminal, the day on which any sitting is to commence may be designated as the first,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of time and place of court; notice - Chapter 220, Section 5
  If it is unsafe or inexpedient to hold a court at the time and place appointed, a justice of the court may appoint another time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Business days; exceptions - Chapter 220, Section 6
  The divisions of the departments of the trial court shall always be open and the business thereof, or of a justice thereof, may be transacted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Process servers - Chapter 220, Section 7
  Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables and other officers shall serve all lawful processes issued by a court, judge, judicial officer or county commissioners legally directed to
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of claims by attorney and court officers, etc., prohibited; penalty - Chapter 220, Section 8
  No attorney, justice of the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable shall, directly or indirectly, buy or be interested in buying, or, directly or indirectly,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Criers - Chapter 220, Section 9
  Clerks or assistant clerks of courts, sheriffs or their deputies, as the court may direct, shall perform the duties of criers, without additional compensation; and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judge, etc.; interest of town in suit or proceeding - Chapter 220, Section 10
  No person shall be disqualified from acting as judge, magistrate, appraiser or officer of any kind in a suit or proceeding in which a town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - United States judicial officer; ineligibility for certain offices - Chapter 220, Section 11
  No person who holds a judicial office under the laws of the United States shall hold any judicial office of this commonwealth, except that of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Referee in bankruptcy; ineligibility for certain offices - Chapter 220, Section 12
  No person who holds the office of referee in bankruptcy shall at the same time hold any judicial office, except that of justice of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusion of minors as spectators from court room - Chapter 220, Section 13
  Any court may exclude minors as spectators from the court room during the trial of any cause, civil or criminal, if their presence is not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contempt cases; rights of defendant - Chapter 220, Section 13A
  Any person who shall wilfully disobey any lawful process, order, judgment or command of the court in any action in which injunctive relief is sought...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contempt cases; demand for retirement of justice sitting - Chapter 220, Section 13B
  The defendant in any proceeding for contempt of court in such a case may file with the court a demand for the retirement of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commitment for contempt; service of process - Chapter 220, Section 14
  Commitments for contempt of court may be made to any jail in the commonwealth; and processes issued in proceedings relative to alleged contempt may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time within which certain decisions to be rendered - Chapter 220, Section 14A
  An associate justice of the superior court, who has reserved his decision in a case heard by him without a jury, shall render his decision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction - Chapter 220, Section 15
  The supreme judicial court and the superior court shall have jurisdiction to naturalize aliens resident within their respective judicial districts in the manner set forth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 144, Sec. 3 - Chapter 220, Section 16 17
  Repealed, 1932, 144, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Declarations of intention - Chapter 220, Section 18
  The superior court may authorize the execution and reception by the clerk of the court of declarations of intention in naturalization proceedings at such times...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 16 - Chapter 220, Section 19
  Repealed, 1932,

Last modified: September 11, 2015