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MA Gen L ch 221 § 46d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 46d - Credit Counseling Corporations, Applicability of Secs. 46 to 46c

Section 46D. The provisions of sections forty-six, forty-six A, forty-six B and forty-six C shall not apply to a corporation, or its agents, which has been organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty for the purpose of providing credit counseling.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 48 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 48 - Prosecution or Defense of Own Suits; Restriction

Section 48. Parties may manage, prosecute or defend their own suits personally, or by such attorneys as they may engage; but not more than two persons for each party shall, without permission of the court, be allowed to manage any case therein.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 50 - Attorney's Lien for Fees; Enforcement

Section 50. From the authorized commencement of an action, counterclaim or other proceeding in any court, or appearance in any proceeding before any state or federal department, board or commission, the attorney who appears for a client in such proceeding shall have a lien for his reasonable fees and expenses upon his client's cause of action, counterclaim or claim, upon the judgment, decree or other order in his client's favor entered or made in such proceeding, and upon the proceeds derived therefrom. Upon request of the client or of the attorney, the court in which the proceeding is pending or, if the proceeding is not pending in a court, the superior court, may determine and enforce the lien; provided, that the provisions of this sentence shall not apply to any case where the method of the determination of attorneys' fees is otherwise expressly provided by statute.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 50a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 50a - Discharge of State or Political Subdivision From Liability for Attorney's Lien

Section 50A. Payment by the commonwealth or by any political subdivision thereof to a client in full or in settlement of any claim, counterclaim, cause of action, judgment, execution, order or decree shall discharge the commonwealth or such political subdivision from all liability on account of any attorney's liens thereon or on the proceeds derived therefrom unless the state treasurer or the treasurer of such political subdivision, as the case may be, has received written notice from an attorney having a lien under section fifty that he claims such lien.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 50b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 50b - Claims; Summary Determination

Section 50B. The court shall determine all claims in a summary manner, but without abridging the right of trial by jury as guaranteed by the constitution.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 51 - Failure to Pay Client's Money; Penalty

Section 51. An attorney at law who unreasonably neglects to pay over money collected by him for and in behalf of a client, when demanded by the client, shall forfeit to such client five times the lawful interest of the money from the time of the demand.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 52 - Disqualification of Attorney to Act in Suits Previously Decided by Him

Section 52. No person shall be employed or allowed to appear as attorney before a court in any proceeding, civil or criminal, which shall have been previously determined before him as a judge of any court or as a trial justice.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 53 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 53 - Masters in Chancery

Section 53. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall, as vacancies occur, appoint masters in chancery, who may act throughout the commonwealth, so that the number thereof in the several counties shall be twelve in Suffolk, eleven in Essex, eleven in Middlesex, seven in Worcester, six in Norfolk, six in Plymouth, six in Hampden, and not more than five in any other county. They shall be sworn, and shall hold their offices for five years.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 54 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 54 - Completion of Business on Expiration of Commission

Section 54. A master may complete any unfinished proceedings and processes pending before him or commenced under his direction notwithstanding the expiration of his commission.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 55 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 55 - Compensation of Masters, Etc.

Section 55. The supreme judicial court, the superior court or the probate court shall award reasonable compensation to commissioners, assessors, referees, masters in chancery and special masters, for duties performed under the direction of said court, and to arbitrators appointed under chapter two hundred and fifty-one upon whose awards judgment is entered, which shall be paid by the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 57 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 57 - Masters; Appointment

Section 57. When a civil action is at issue and is not governed by chapter two hundred and twenty-one B or by the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure or by any extensions thereof to domestic relations actions, the justice of the probate and family court division may appoint one or more masters to hear the parties, examine their vouchers and evidence, state accounts and report upon such matters therein as may be ordered by the court. The report shall be prima facie evidence upon such matters as are expressly referred to such masters.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 58 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 58 - Masters; Hearings; Reports; Judgment

Section 58. Masters shall give notice to the parties of the time and place appointed for their meeting, and may adjourn from time to time as may be necessary, subject, however, to any general or special order of the court. If there is more than one master, all shall meet and hear the cause, but a report may be made by a majority. If either party neglects to appear at the time appointed for such hearing, or at any adjournment thereof, without just cause, or if at any such hearing either party refuses to produce in good faith the testimony relied on by him, the masters may close the hearings and make a report recommending that judgment be entered for the adverse party. Judgment shall be entered accordingly after the expiration of ten days from the filing of the report, unless the court, for cause shown, otherwise orders. In all matters pertaining to the time, place and manner of conducting their hearings, masters shall be subject to any general or special order of the court by which they were appointed.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 59 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 59 - Auditors; Discharge by Court

Section 59. The court may for cause discharge the auditors and appoint others and may recommit the report for revision or further examination to the same or to other auditors.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 61 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 61 - Masters; Compensation and Travel Expenses

Section 61. The court shall award reasonable compensation and allow actual expenses of travel in attending hearings, if said expenses be approved by the court as reasonable, to masters, and the same shall be paid by the commonwealth if they are appointed by the supreme judicial court, the superior court department or the probate and family court department. If they are appointed by any other department, the compensation awarded and expenses of travel allowed may be paid by either party and taxes in his bill or costs if he prevails; but the plaintiff shall be liable for such payment, and the court may make all orders and decrees, and issue process to enforce the same. No allowance for the expenses of travel shall be allowed by the court, unless the master shall file a true and correct account of such expenses, signed and sworn to by him.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 62 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 62 - Reports of Masters

Section 62. Masters appointed by the probate and family court department shall file their final report in the office of the register of the court by which they are appointed within ninety days after the hearing before them has been closed or within such time as the court may allow, and, in default thereof, shall not be entitled to any fees, except as provided in section sixty-two A.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 62a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 62a - Masters; Death or Incapacity; Compensation

Section 62A. If a master appointed by the probate and family court department becomes incapacitated or dies without having filed his final report the court may award him or his estate reasonable compensation, payable by the commonwealth, upon a finding that he actually performed services which would entitle him to the compensation awarded had he filed a report as provided in section sixty-two; provided, that all his records and memoranda, or copies thereof, in the case in which compensation is sought, are filed with the register of the court.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 62b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 62b - Clerks of Courts as Magistrates

Section 62B. Clerks of court for the several counties, the clerk of the superior court for criminal business in Suffolk county, the clerk of the superior court for civil business in Suffolk county, clerks of the housing courts, registers of the probate courts, clerks of district courts, clerks of juvenile courts, and clerks of the Boston municipal court department; shall hereafter also have the title of magistrate for their particular department, or division as the case may be, of the trial court.  Magistrates herein provided shall continue to have and exercise all the powers, duties and responsibilities of clerks and registers and shall also have those provided for in section sixty-two C.  An assistant clerk, temporary clerk, temporary assistant clerk, or assistant register, shall also have and exercise the powers, duties and responsibilities of magistrate, subject to specific authorization by the clerk, or register, and specific approval of such authorization by the first justice of the division wherein he serves, or in the case of the superior court department or Boston municipal court department by the administrative justice therefor. Said first justice or administrative justice may place such restrictions on such authorization as is conducive to the effective administration of justice.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 62c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 62c - Magistrates; Powers and Duties

Section 62C. A magistrate designated under the previous section, in addition to his powers and duties as clerk, may:  (a) grant such continuances as are agreed upon by all parties to any proceeding and as may be allowed by rule of court;  (b) hear and rule on any uncontested non-evidentiary motion as may be allowed by rule of court;  (c) call such pre-trial conferences as are deemed expedient for the purpose of ascertaining the trial readiness of parties to an action and of establishing a date for trial;  (d) mediate actions under section twenty-two of chapter two hundred and eighteen;  (e) receive citations and hold hearings pursuant to subsection A of section three of chapter ninety C.  (f) receive petitions and review orders pursuant to section one hundred and fifty-seven of chapter one hundred and forty;  (g) hold preliminary hearings to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that a probationer has violated the terms of his probation.  (h) set bail on arraignments during the normal court day, when a justice is unavailable.  The powers of magistrates as provided herein shall be exercised as allowed by rule of court promulgated by the administrative justice of the appropriate department and approved by the supreme judicial court.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 63 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 63 - Appointment; Tenure

Section 63. There shall be a reporter of decisions of the supreme judicial court. He shall be appointed by the justices of the supreme judicial court, and hold office at their pleasure.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 64 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 64 - Preparation of Reports; Time of Publication

Section 64. He shall attend the law sittings of the court unless excused therefrom by the chief justice, make true reports of decisions upon all questions of law argued by counsel, prepare them for publication with suitable head notes, tables of cases and indexes, furnish them to the publisher, and superintend the correction, proof reading and publication thereof. He shall in his discretion report the several cases more or less at large according to their relative importance, so as not unnecessarily to increase the size or number of the volumes of reports. The reports of all decisions argued and determined before September first in each year shall be published within ninety days thereafter.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 64a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 64a - Printing or Publication in Electronic Format and Sale of Reports of Decisions of Supreme Judicial and Appeals Courts; Advertisement for Bids; Award and Execution of Contracts; Performance Bond

Section 64A. The reporter shall from time to time advertise for bids for the execution of the printing and binding or for the execution of the publication in electronic format, and provide for the sale to the public at such price as he may fix, of the reports of decisions of the supreme judicial court and the appeals court and of reprints of volumes thereof previously published. Such contracts for printing and binding or for publication in electronic format and for sale to the public shall cover such volumes as the reporter shall determine. The reporter shall take into consideration the circumstances and facilities of the several bidders for such contracts as well as the terms offered; may reject any bids received; shall award the contracts to such bidders as in his judgment the interests of the commonwealth may require; and shall execute the contracts in the name and behalf of the commonwealth. The reporter may from time to time negotiate for, and execute in the name and behalf of the commonwealth, contracts for the printing or publication in electronic format and sale to the public during such periods of time and at such prices as he may fix, of advance copies of opinions of said courts filed with him. Contracts under this section may be awarded by the reporter singly or in a group or groups. A surety company bond, or securities satisfactory to the reporter, in an amount fixed by him, which shall not be less than ten thousand dollars, shall be furnished by anyone to whom any single contract or group of contracts is awarded under authority of this section, to secure faithful performance thereof.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 65 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 65 - Style of Reports

Section 65. The volumes of reports shall be styled ''Massachusetts Reports'', and the name of the reporter shall not be added thereto.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 66 - Opinions; Duration and Manner of Keeping

Section 66. The commonwealth shall provide a safe and convenient place in Boston where the reporter shall keep the written opinions of the court in all law cases argued in the several counties until their publication in the reports, and his dockets and copies of papers in such cases, and where he shall afford due facilities for their examination.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 67 - Deputy Reporter

Section 67. If the reporter is prevented from attending at a sitting, he shall depute a suitable person to attend for him and take notes of the decisions; or the court may appoint a person to act for him until he resumes the performance of his duties, or until another is appointed.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 68 - Compensation of Reporter

Section 68. The reporter shall receive from the commonwealth a salary to be fixed by the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, with the approval of the governor and council, and shall be allowed by the commonwealth for clerical and incidental expenses of his office such sums as shall be appropriated therefor. These amounts shall be in full compensation for his services and said expenses. All fees received by him for copies of opinions, rescripts and other papers shall be paid by him quarterly to the commonwealth, with a detailed statement thereof.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 69 - Number; Compensation for Attendance

Section 69. Not more than 4 deputy sheriffs or court officers shall receive compensation for attendance upon a sitting of the superior court for civil business or for both civil and criminal business unless the presiding justice or the district attorney requests, in writing, that the chief justice of the trial court procure the attendance for the whole or a portion of any such sitting of an additional number. Not more than 6 deputy sheriffs, court officers or constables shall receive compensation for attendance upon a sitting of the superior court for criminal business unless the district attorney requests, in writing, that the chief justice of the trial court procure the attendance for the whole or a portion of any such sitting of an additional number.
MA Gen L ch 221 § 69a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 221 - Clerks, Attorneys and Other Officers of Judicial Courts|Section 69a - Court Officer Appointments and Removals; Security of John Adams Courthouse

Section 69A. (a) The chief justice of the supreme judicial court shall appoint, and may remove for cause, the chief court officer, the assistant chief court officer and the court officers of the supreme judicial court, who shall be responsible for security in all areas of the John Adams courthouse occupied by the supreme judicial court and in all areas of any other building occupied permanently by the supreme judicial court. The chief justice shall provide for the discipline, assignment and supervision of those court officers and define their duties.  (b) The chief justice of the appeals court shall appoint, and may remove for cause, the chief court officer, the assistant chief court officer and the court officers of the appeals court, who shall be responsible for security in all areas of the John Adams courthouse occupied by the appeals court and in all areas of any other building occupied permanently by the appeals court. The chief justice shall provide for the discipline, assignment and supervision of those court officers and define their duties.  (c) The court administrator shall assign such associate court officers to the John Adams courthouse as are sufficient to meet the security needs of the John Adams courthouse, including those spaces not occupied permanently by the supreme judicial court or the appeals court.  (d) The chief court officer of the supreme judicial court shall be the senior person in charge of security for the John Adams courthouse. The chief court officer of the supreme judicial court shall coordinate the security of the John Adams courthouse with the chief court officer of the appeals court and the director of security of the administrative office of the trial court or other representative as the chief justice for administration and management may designate.