General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 233 Witnesses and Evidence

• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of summonses for witnesses - Chapter 233, Section 1
  A clerk of a court of record, a notary public or a justice of the peace may issue summonses for witnesses in all cases pending...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service of summons - Chapter 233, Section 2
  Such summons may be served in any county by an officer qualified to serve civil process or by a disinterested person by exhibiting and reading...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Witness fees; payment or tender - Chapter 233, Section 3
  No person shall be required to attend as a witness in a civil case or for the defendant in a criminal case except a person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Representation of commissioner of banks - Chapter 233, Section 3A
  If the commissioner of banks is summoned as a witness in any proceeding involving his official acts, unless the court or tribunal shall otherwise order,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for nonattendance - Chapter 233, Section 4
  If a person who has been duly summoned and required to attend as a witness under the preceding sections or section thirty-seven of chapter two...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for nonattendance; contempt - Chapter 233, Section 5
  Such failure to attend as a witness before a court, justice of the peace, master in chancery, master or auditor appointed by a court, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant for nonattending witness - Chapter 233, Section 6
  The court, justice, master in chancery, master, auditor or county commissioners may in such case issue a warrant to bring such witness before them to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses before executive council - Chapter 233, Section 7
  Witnesses may be summoned to attend and testify at a hearing before the executive council, or a committee thereof, as to matters within its authority....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bodies authorized to summon witnesses; oath - Chapter 233, Section 8
  Witnesses may be summoned to attend and testify and to produce books and papers at a hearing before a city council, or either branch thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant for witness failing to attend before nonjudicial tribunal - Chapter 233, Section 9
  If a witness who has been so summoned and paid or tendered the proper fees fails to attend in pursuance thereof, the presiding officer of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcing attendance before nonjudicial tribunal - Chapter 233, Section 10
  A justice of the supreme judicial or the superior court, upon application of a tribunal authorized to summon but not to compel the attendance of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requiring testimony - Chapter 233, Section 11
  A justice of the supreme judicial or the superior court, upon the application of a magistrate or tribunal authorized to summon and compel the attendance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Summons for attendance at criminal trial outside state - Chapter 233, Section 12
  A justice of the peace, upon receipt of a certificate of the clerk of a court of record in the state of Maine or in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for nonattendance outside state - Chapter 233, Section 13
  If the person on whom such summons is served is paid or tendered double the fees allowed by law for travel and attendance of witnesses...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance of witnesses outside state; hearing and summons; failure to attend - Chapter 233, Section 13A
  If a certificate wherein a judge of a court of record in any state which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance of witness from another state; fees; failure to attend - Chapter 233, Section 13B
  If a person in any state which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from arrest and process of witnesses from outside state - Chapter 233, Section 13C
  If a person comes into this commonwealth in obedience to a summons or order directing him to attend and testify in a criminal proceeding or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Short title; construction of law - Chapter 233, Section 13D
  Sections thirteen A to thirteen C, inclusive, may be cited as the uniform law to secure the attendance of witnesses from without a state in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons authorized to administer oaths - Chapter 233, Section 14
  Arbitrators, referees, masters and auditors appointed according to law may administer oaths or affirmations to all persons offered as witnesses before them.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mode of administering oaths - Chapter 233, Section 15
  The usual mode of administering oaths now practiced in the commonwealth, with the ceremony of holding up the hand, shall be observed in all cases...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mode requested by affiant - Chapter 233, Section 16
  If a person to be sworn declares that a different mode of taking the oath is in his opinion more solemn and obligatory than the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Affirmation by Quakers - Chapter 233, Section 17
  A Friend or Quaker when called on to take an oath may solemnly and sincerely affirm under the penalties of perjury.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Affirmation for reasons of conscience - Chapter 233, Section 18
  A person who declares that he has conscientious scruples against taking an oath shall, when called upon for that purpose, be permitted to affirm in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oaths of non-Christians - Chapter 233, Section 19
  A person believing in any other than the Christian religion may be sworn according to the appropriate ceremonies of his religion. A person not a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Competency of witnesses; husband and wife; criminal defendant; parent and child - Chapter 233, Section 20
  Any person of sufficient understanding, although a party, may testify in any proceeding, civil or criminal, in court or before a person who has authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Privileged communications; communications with clergymen - Chapter 233, Section 20A
  A priest, rabbi or ordained or licensed minister of any church or an accredited Christian Science practitioner shall not, without the consent of the person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Privileged communications; patients and psychotherapists; exceptions - Chapter 233, Section 20B
  The following words as used in this section shall have the following meanings:— “Patient”, a person who, during the course of diagnosis or treatment, communicates...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Immunity from prosecution; privilege against self-incrimination - Chapter 233, Section 20C
  In any investigation or proceeding before a grand jury, or in a criminal proceeding in the supreme judicial court, appeals court or superior court involving...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes subject to immunity - Chapter 233, Section 20D
  A witness who is called or who may be called to testify before a grand jury or in a criminal proceeding in the supreme judicial...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for witness immunity by attorney general or district attorney; hearing; representation of witness; notice or waiver; transcript - Chapter 233, Section 20E
  (a) A justice of the supreme judicial court, appeals court or superior court shall, at the request of the attorney general or a district attorney,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 188, Sec. 5 - Chapter 233, Section 20F
  Repealed, 1998, 188, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Scope of immunity; copies of transcript of testimony compelled and documents furnished; availability to witness - Chapter 233, Section 20G
  A witness who has been granted immunity as provided in section 20E shall not be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contempt of court; punishment; appeal - Chapter 233, Section 20H
  If a witness has been granted immunity pursuant to the provisions of section twenty E by a justice of the supreme judicial court, appeals court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of corroborating testimony of, or evidence produced by, person granted immunity - Chapter 233, Section 20I
  No defendant in any criminal proceeding shall be convicted solely on the testimony of, or the evidence produced by, a person granted immunity under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sexual assault; confidential communications with sexual assault counsellor; disclosure; discovery - Chapter 233, Section 20J
  As used in this section the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, shall have the following meaning:— “Rape crisis center”, any office, institution...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic violence victims’ counselors; confidential communications - Chapter 233, Section 20K
  As used in this section the following words shall unless the context clearly requires otherwise have the following meanings:— “Abuse”, causing or attempting to cause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidentiality of domestic violence victims’ program and rape crisis center locations - Chapter 233, Section 20L
  The location and street address of all domestic violence victims’ programs, as defined in section twenty K and rape crisis centers, as defined in section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of confidential communication regarding human trafficking victim by caseworker - Chapter 233, Section 20M
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Confidential communication”, information transmitted in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proof of conviction of crime to affect credibility - Chapter 233, Section 21
  The conviction of a witness of a crime may be shown to affect his credibility, except as follows: First, The record of his conviction of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evidence of reputation - Chapter 233, Section 21A
  Evidence of the reputation of a person in a group with the members of which he has habitually associated in his work or business shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evidence of sex crime victim’s sexual conduct; admission hearing; findings - Chapter 233, Section 21B
  Evidence of the reputation of a victim’s sexual conduct shall not be admissible in an investigation or proceeding before a grand jury or a court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cross-examination of adverse party; corporation’s agent as adverse party - Chapter 233, Section 22
  A party who calls the adverse party as a witness shall be allowed to cross-examine him. In case the adverse party is a corporation, an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Impeachment of party’s own witness - Chapter 233, Section 23
  The party who produces a witness shall not impeach his credit by evidence of bad character, but may contradict him by other evidence, and may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of written or recorded statements of party to personal injury action - Chapter 233, Section 23A
  In any action to recover damages for personal injuries or consequential damages, so called, resulting therefrom, no statement in writing signed by any party to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accused; statements made while undergoing psychiatric examination; admissibility - Chapter 233, Section 23B
  In the trial of an indictment or complaint for any crime, no statement made by a defendant therein subjected to psychiatric examination pursuant to sections...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Work product of mediator confidential; confidential communications; exception; mediator defined - Chapter 233, Section 23C
  All memoranda, and other work product prepared by a mediator and a mediator’s case files shall be confidential and not subject to disclosure in any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of benevolent statements, writings or gestures relating to accident victims - Chapter 233, Section 23D
  As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Accident”, an occurrence resulting in injury...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Alternative procedure for determining competency of witnesses with an intellectual disability - Chapter 233, Section 23E
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— “Witnesses with an intellectual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of past physical, sexual or psychological abuse of defendant - Chapter 233, Section 23F
  In the trial of criminal cases charging the use of force against another where the issue of defense of self or another, defense of duress...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Depositions in civil cases authorized - Chapter 233, Section 24
  Depositions may be taken as provided in this chapter to be used only in those proceedings in the land court and probate court which are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medical witnesses - Chapter 233, Section 24A
  At trial of a civil matter in the district court department of the trial court, the justice may order, or, upon the request of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grounds for deposition - Chapter 233, Section 25
  If a witness or party whose testimony is wanted in a civil cause or proceeding pending in the commonwealth lives more than thirty miles from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of taking deposition - Chapter 233, Section 26
  After service of process in an action, or after a submission to arbitrators or referees, either party may apply to a justice of the peace...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons on whom notice may be served - Chapter 233, Section 27
  The notice may be served on the adverse party, his agent or attorney, and if there are several plaintiffs or defendants, on any of them.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mode of service - Chapter 233, Section 28
  The notice shall be served by delivering an attested copy thereof to the person to be notified, or by leaving such copy at his place...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Verbal notice; waiver of notice, etc. - Chapter 233, Section 29
  The justice or notary who takes the deposition may give a verbal instead of the written notice. If the adverse party or his attorney in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oath and examination of deponent - Chapter 233, Section 30
  The deponent shall be sworn or affirmed to testify the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, relative to the cause for which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Order of examination - Chapter 233, Section 31
  The party producing the deponent shall be allowed first to examine him, either upon verbal or written interrogatories, on all the points which he considers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mode of taking deposition - Chapter 233, Section 32
  The deposition shall be written by the justice or notary or deponent or by a disinterested person in the presence and under the direction of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of deposition - Chapter 233, Section 33
  The justice or notary shall annex to the deposition a certificate of the time and manner of taking it, the person at whose request and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery and preservation of deposition - Chapter 233, Section 34
  The deposition shall be delivered by the justice or notary to the court, arbitrators, referees or other persons before whom the cause is pending, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusion of deposition - Chapter 233, Section 35
  The court may exclude the deposition if it finds that the adverse party failed without fault to attend the taking thereof, and shall exclude it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Objections to deposition - Chapter 233, Section 36
  Objections to the competency or credibility of the deponent and to the admissibility of any questions asked of or answers made by him may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of deposition in second action - Chapter 233, Section 37
  If a plaintiff discontinues his action or becomes nonsuit, and another action is afterward commenced for the same cause between the same parties or their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compelling giving of deposition; place - Chapter 233, Section 38
  A person may be summoned and compelled to give his deposition at a place within twenty miles of his place of abode, in like manner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Place of taking deposition of nonresident found within commonwealth - Chapter 233, Section 39
  A person not a resident of but found within the commonwealth may be summoned and compelled to give his deposition at any place within ten...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for taking depositions - Chapter 233, Section 40
  The courts may make rules regulating the time and manner of opening, filing and safe keeping of depositions, and the taking and use thereof.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking deposition outside commonwealth - Chapter 233, Section 41
  The deposition of a person without the commonwealth may be taken under a commission issued to one or more competent persons in another state or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written interrogatories; notice to adverse party; production of documents - Chapter 233, Section 42
  Unless the court otherwise orders, a deposition taken before commissioners shall be taken upon written interrogatories, which shall be filed in the clerk’s office and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for taking depositions outside of commonwealth - Chapter 233, Section 43
  The courts may make rules for the issuing of commissions, the filing of interrogatories and all other matters relative to depositions taken without the commonwealth.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign depositions obtained contrary to statute - Chapter 233, Section 44
  Depositions and affidavits taken without the commonwealth in any manner other than is provided in the three preceding sections, if taken before a notary public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposition for use in another state - Chapter 233, Section 45
  A person may be summoned and compelled, in like manner and under the same penalties as are provided for a witness before a court, to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application to take deposition to perpetuate testimony - Chapter 233, Section 46
  If a person desires to perpetuate his own testimony or the testimony of another person, he shall apply in writing to two justices of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of taking deposition; compelling testimony - Chapter 233, Section 47
  The justices or notaries shall thereupon cause notice of the time and place appointed for taking the deposition to be given to all persons named...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Objections to taking deposition; procedure - Chapter 233, Section 48
  If at the time and place so appointed a witness or a person interested appears and objects, the justices or notaries shall not take the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mode of taking deposition - Chapter 233, Section 49
  The deponent shall be sworn and examined, and his deposition shall be written, read and subscribed in the manner provided in sections thirty to thirty-two,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recording deposition - Chapter 233, Section 50
  The deposition, the certificate and the application of the petitioner shall, within ninety days after the taking of the deposition, be recorded in the registry...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of deposition in action - Chapter 233, Section 51
  If, at the time of taking such deposition or afterward, an action is pending between the petitioner and the persons named in his application or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Perpetuation of testimony of nonresidents - Chapter 233, Section 52
  Depositions to perpetuate the testimony of persons living without the commonwealth may be taken without the commonwealth upon a commission issued by the supreme judicial...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application to perpetuate testimony of nonresidents - Chapter 233, Section 53
  The person who desires to take such deposition shall file in either of said courts the application provided for in section forty-six; and if the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of taking deposition - Chapter 233, Section 54
  The court shall order notice of such application and statement to be served on all the persons named therein as adversely interested, and living within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of commission - Chapter 233, Section 55
  If, upon hearing the parties who appear, the court finds that there is sufficient cause for taking the deposition, it shall issue a commission therefor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written interrogatories - Chapter 233, Section 56
  The deposition shall be taken upon written interrogatories filed by the applicant, and cross interrogatories, if any are filed by any party adversely interested, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for perpetuation of testimony of witnesses without commonwealth - Chapter 233, Section 57
  The supreme judicial court may make rules for taking depositions to perpetuate the testimony of witnesses without the commonwealth, taken under a commission from the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of deposition - Chapter 233, Section 58
  Depositions to perpetuate the testimony of witnesses which are taken without the commonwealth under this chapter may be used in like manner as if taken...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Perpetuation of testimony for use against all persons - Chapter 233, Section 59
  Depositions to perpetuate the testimony of witnesses within or without the commonwealth, so that they may be evidence against all persons, may, after public notice,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for deposition - Chapter 233, Section 60
  The person who desires to have such deposition taken may apply to either of said courts in the manner provided in section fifty-three, and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Naming persons interested; notice of taking deposition - Chapter 233, Section 61
  The court shall, in addition to the proceedings before provided, require the applicant, upon oath or otherwise, in its discretion, to state the names of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recording deposition - Chapter 233, Section 62
  After such deposition has been taken, it shall be returned to the court by whose order the commission issued, which, if the deposition is found...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of deposition against any person - Chapter 233, Section 63
  A deposition taken and recorded under the provisions of the four preceding sections, or a certified copy thereof from the registry of deeds, may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of dying declaration of woman - Chapter 233, Section 64
  In prosecutions under section nineteen of chapter two hundred and seventy-two in which the death of a woman is alleged to have resulted from the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of declaration of decedent - Chapter 233, Section 65
  In any action or other civil judicial proceeding, a declaration of a deceased person shall not be inadmissible in evidence as hearsay or as private...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of deceased party’s answers to interrogatories - Chapter 233, Section 65A
  If a party to an action who has filed answers to interrogatories under any applicable statute or any rule of the Massachusetts Rules of Civil...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evidence in actions against an executor or administrator - Chapter 233, Section 66
  If a cause of action brought against an executor or administrator is supported by oral testimony of a promise or statement made by the testator...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General rule - Chapter 233, Section 67
  Evidence in any proceeding seeking equitable relief shall be taken in the same manner as in actions at law, unless the court otherwise orders; but...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proof of signature - Chapter 233, Section 68
  A signature to an attested instrument or writing, except a will, may be proved in the same manner as if it were not attested.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of courts of other states or United States - Chapter 233, Section 69
  The records and judicial proceedings of a court of another state or of the United States shall be admissible in evidence in this commonwealth, if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial notice of foreign law - Chapter 233, Section 70
  The courts shall take judicial notice of the law of the United States or of any state, territory or dependency thereof or of a foreign...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1926, 168, Sec. 2 - Chapter 233, Section 71 72
  Repealed, 1926, 168, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign oaths and affidavits - Chapter 233, Section 73
  All oaths and affidavits administered or taken by a notary public, duly commissioned and qualified by authority of any other state or government, within the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evidence of acts of incorporation - Chapter 233, Section 74
  Acts of incorporation shall be held to be public acts and as such may be declared on and given in evidence.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of printed copies of acts of legislative and administrative bodies - Chapter 233, Section 75
  The printed copies of all statutes, acts and resolves of the commonwealth, public or private, which are published under its authority, and copies of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissibility of authenticated records of governmental departments - Chapter 233, Section 76
  Copies of books, papers, documents and records in any department of the commonwealth or of any city or town, authenticated by the attestation of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authenticated copies of documents filed with securities and exchange commission - Chapter 233, Section 76A
  Photostatic or other copies of applications, reports, books, records, returns, papers or documents filed with the federal securities and exchange commission, or any successor thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Printed copies of schedules, classifications and tariffs filed with interstate commerce commission - Chapter 233, Section 76B
  Printed copies of schedules, classifications and tariffs of rates, fares and charges, and supplements to any such schedules, classifications and tariffs, filed with the Interstate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authenticated copies of records of banks and trust companies - Chapter 233, Section 77
  Copies from the records, books and accounts of a trust company, co-operative bank, national bank or savings bank, doing business in the commonwealth, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bank account statement together with legible copy of check; prima facie proof of payment - Chapter 233, Section 77A
  A statement of account of a bank showing payment of a check or other item, together with a legible copy of the check or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry, writing or record made in regular course of business; impeachment - Chapter 233, Section 78
  An entry in an account kept in a book or by a card system or by any other system of keeping accounts, or a writing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records and copies of records of hospitals and certain institutions; admissibility in evidence - Chapter 233, Section 79
  Records kept by hospitals, dispensaries or clinics, and sanatoria under section seventy of chapter one hundred and eleven shall be admissible, and records which the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certified copies of public and private records - Chapter 233, Section 79A
  Copies of public records, of records described in sections five, seven and sixteen, respectively, of chapter sixty-six, and of records of banks, trust companies, insurance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fact statements published for persons in particular occupation - Chapter 233, Section 79B
  Statements of facts of general interest to persons engaged in an occupation contained in a list, register, periodical, book or other compilation, issued to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Statements of fact or opinion in scientific publication; notice of intention to use - Chapter 233, Section 79C
  Statements of facts or opinions on a subject of science or art contained in a published treatise, periodical, book or pamphlet shall, in so far...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Photographic copies of newspaper in library; prints from photographic films - Chapter 233, Section 79D
  Copies of any newspaper, or part thereof made by the photographic or microphotographic process deposited in any public library or a library of any college...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reproductions of public or business records - Chapter 233, Section 79E
  If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or any department or agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proof of public way - Chapter 233, Section 79F
  A certificate by the secretary of the public works commission in the case of a state highway, or the secretary of the metropolitan district commission...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medical and hospital services; evidence - Chapter 233, Section 79G
  In any proceeding commenced in any court, commission or agency, an itemized bill and reports, including hospital medical records, relating to medical, dental, hospital services,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tort actions for personal injuries or death; admissibility of reports of deceased physicians - Chapter 233, Section 79H
  In an action of tort for personal injuries or death, or for consequential damages arising from such personal injuries, the medical report of a deceased...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions to recover from insurer for theft of personal property from motor vehicle or trailer; prima facie evidence of forcible entry into vehicle - Chapter 233, Section 79I
  In an action to recover from an insurer under a policy which provides coverage for theft of personal articles from a motor vehicle or trailer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Business records required to be produced in court; certification, admissibility and inspection; copies - Chapter 233, Section 79J
  A record kept by any business which is required to be produced in court by any party shall be certified by the affidavit of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duplicate of computer data file or program file; admissibility - Chapter 233, Section 79K
  A duplicate of a computer data file or program file shall be admissible in evidence as the original itself unless (1) a genuine question is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Statements or conduct expressing regret, apology, condolence by health care provider; admissibility - Chapter 233, Section 79L
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Facility”, a hospital, clinic, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transcripts from stenographic notes - Chapter 233, Section 80
  Transcripts from stenographic notes duly taken under authority of law in any court proceeding by a stenographer duly appointed for the purpose and sworn, when...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal proceedings; out-of-court statements describing sexual contact; admissibility - Chapter 233, Section 81
  (a) An out-of-court statement of a child under the age of ten describing an act of sexual contact performed on or with the child, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil proceedings; out-of-court statements describing sexual contact; admissibility - Chapter 233, Section 82
  (a) The out-of-court statements of a child under the age of ten describing any act of sexual contact performed on or with the child, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Custody hearings; out-of-court statements describing sexual contact; admissibility - Chapter 233, Section 83
  (a) Any out-of-court statements of a child under the age of ten describing any act of sexual contact performed on or with the child, the...

Last modified: September 11, 2015