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MA Gen L ch 233 § 59 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 59 - Perpetuation of Testimony for Use Against All Persons

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, be taken upon a commission issued by the supreme judicial court or the superior court.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 60 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 60 - Application for Deposition

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 proceedings thereon shall be the same as are provided in sections fifty-four to fifty-six, inclusive.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 61 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 61 - Naming Persons Interested; Notice of Taking Deposition

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 all persons known or supposed to be interested in the subject matter of the application, and shall in the commission direct the commissioner or commissioners to publish in such newspaper within or without the commonwealth, or both, or in such other manner, as the court orders, such notice of the time and place of taking such deposition and of the subject matter thereof as the court approves. Such notice shall be addressed by name to all persons who are known or supposed to be interested in the subject matter of the application, and generally to all others, and shall state that they may attend and propose cross interrogatories to the witness. The court may require additional personal notice of the time and place of taking and of the subject matter of such deposition to be given to such persons and in such manner as it orders.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 62 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 62 - Recording Deposition

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 to have been taken according to law and the directions contained in the commission, shall order it to be recorded within thirty days after the date of the order in the registry of deeds, in the manner provided in section fifty.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 63 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 63 - Use of Deposition Against Any Person

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 used by the person at whose request it was taken, or by any person who claims under him, against any person whatever, in any action or process wherein is brought in question the title, claim or interest set forth in the statement upon which the commission was founded, in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions and objections, as if it had been originally taken for said action or process.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 64 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 64 - Admissibility of Dying Declaration of Woman

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 means therein described, her dying declarations shall be admissible in evidence.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 65 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 65 - Admissibility of Declaration of Decedent

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 conversation between husband and wife, as the case may be, if the court finds that it was made in good faith and upon the personal knowledge of the declarant.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 65a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 65a - Admissibility of Deceased Party's Answers to Interrogatories

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 Procedure dies, so much of such answers as the court finds have been made upon the personal knowledge of the deceased shall not be inadmissible as hearsay or self-serving if offered in evidence in said action by a representative of the deceased party.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 66 - Evidence in Actions Against an Executor or Administrator

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 or intestate of the defendant, evidence of statements, written or oral, made by the decedent, memoranda and entries written by him, and evidence of his acts and habits of dealing tending to disprove or to show the improbability of the making of such promise or statement, shall be admissible.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 67 - Evidence in Equity

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 this section shall not prevent such use of affidavits as had been heretofore allowed.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 68 - Proof of Signature to Attested Instrument

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.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 69 - Records of Courts of Other States or United States

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 authenticated by the attestation of the clerk or other officer who has charge of the records of such court under its seal.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 70 - Judicial Notice of Foreign Law

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 country whenever the same shall be material.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 73 - Foreign Oaths and Affidavits

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 jurisdiction for which he is commissioned, and certified under his official seal, shall be as effectual in this commonwealth as if administered or taken and certified by a justice of the peace therein.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 74 - Evidence of Acts of Incorporation

Section 74. Acts of incorporation shall be held to be public acts and as such may be declared on and given in evidence.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 75 - Admissibility of Printed Copies of Acts of Legislative and Administrative Bodies

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 ordinances of a city, the by-laws of a town or of the rules and regulations of a board of aldermen, if attested by the clerk of such city or town, shall be admitted as sufficient evidence thereof in all courts of law and on all occasions. Printed copies of rules and regulations purporting to be issued by authority of any department, commission, board or officer of the commonwealth or of any city or town having authority to adopt them, or printed copies of any city ordinances or town by-laws or printed copies of the United States Code Annotated or the United States Code Service and all federal regulations, and the the titles, chapter, subchapters, parts and sections thereof, shall be admitted without certification or attestation, but, if their genuineness is questioned, the court shall require such certification or attestation thereof as it deems necessary.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 76 - Admissibility of Authenticated Records of Governmental Departments

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 officer who has charge of the same, shall be competent evidence in all cases equally with the originals thereof; provided, that, except in the case of books, papers, documents and records of the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable in matters relating to common carriers, and of the registry of motor vehicles, the genuineness of the signature of such officer shall be attested by the secretary of the commonwealth under its seal or by the clerk of such city or town, as the case may be.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 76a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 76a - Authenticated Copies of Documents Filed With Securities and Exchange Commission

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, pursuant to the provisions of the act of congress known as the Securities Act of 1933, or the act of congress known as the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as heretofore or hereafter amended, if authenticated by the attestation of the officer or person who has charge of the same together with a certificate of any one of the members of said commission, or of the secretary to said commission, or of any successor thereof, that such attestation is in due form and by the proper officer or person, shall be competent evidence in all cases equally with originals thereof.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 76b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 76b - Printed Copies of Schedules, Classifications and Tariffs Filed With Interstate Commerce Commission

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 Commerce Commission, which show an Interstate Commerce Commission number, and an effective date shall be presumed to be correct copies of the original schedules, classifications, tariffs and supplements on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission, and shall be received as good and sufficient evidence, without certification, in any court of this commonwealth to prove such schedules, classifications, tariffs and supplements.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 77 - Authenticated Copies of Records of Banks and Trust Companies

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 competent evidence in all cases, equally with the originals thereof, if there is annexed to such copies an affidavit, taken before a clerk of a court of record or notary public, under the seal of such court or notary, stating that the affiant is the officer having charge of the original records, books and accounts, and that the copy is correct and is full so far as it relates to the subject matter therein mentioned.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 77a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 77a - Bank Account Statement Together With Legible Copy of Check; Prima Facie Proof of Payment

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 item, shall be competent evidence in all cases to constitute prima facie proof of the payment in the amount of the check or other item. For the purposes of this section, the terms ''bank'', ''check'' and ''item'' shall have the meanings set forth in Article 4 of chapter 106.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 78 - Entry, Writing or Record Made in Regular Course of Business; Impeachment

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 or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, shall not be inadmissible in any civil or criminal proceeding as evidence of the facts therein stated because it is transcribed or because it is hearsay or self-serving, if the court finds that the entry, writing or record was made in good faith in the regular course of business and before the beginning of the civil or criminal proceeding aforesaid and that it was the regular course of such business to make such memorandum or record at the time of such act, transaction, occurrence or event or within a reasonable time thereafter. For the purposes hereof, the word ''business'', in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include profession, occupation and calling of every kind. The court, in its discretion, before admitting such entry, writing or record in evidence, may, to such extent as it deems practicable or desirable, but to no greater extent than the law required before April eleventh, nineteen hundred and thirteen, require the party offering the same to produce and offer in evidence the original entry, writing, document or account or any other from which the entry, writing or record offered or the facts therein stated were transcribed or taken, and to call as his witness any person who made the entry, writing or record offered or the original or any other entry, writing, document or account from which the entry, writing or record offered or the facts therein stated were transcribed or taken, or who has personal knowledge of the facts stated in the entry, writing or record offered. When any such entry, writing or record is admitted, all other circumstances of the making thereof, including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect its weight and when such entry, writing or record is admitted in a criminal proceeding all questions of fact which must be determined by the court as the basis for the admissibility of the evidence involved shall be submitted to the jury, if a jury trial is had for its final determination.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 79 - Records and Copies of Records of Hospitals and Certain Institutions; Admissibility in Evidence

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 court finds are required to be kept by the laws of any other state or territory, or the District of Columbia, or by the laws and regulations of the United States of America pertaining to the department of national defense and the veterans administration, by hospitals, dispensaries or clinics, and sanatoria similarly conducted or operated or which, being incorporated, offer treatment free of charge, may be admitted by the court, in its discretion, as evidence in the courts of the commonwealth so far as such records relate to the treatment and medical history of such cases and the court may, in its discretion, admit copies of such records, if certified by the persons in custody thereof to be true and complete; but nothing therein contained shall be admissible as evidence which has reference to the question of liability. Copies of photographic or microphotographic records so kept by hospitals, dispensaries or clinics, or sanatoria, when duly certified by the person in charge of the hospital, dispensary or clinic, or sanatorium, shall be admitted in evidence equally with the original photographs or microphotographs.  A record kept by any hospital, dispensary or clinic, or sanatorium under section seventy of chapter one hundred and eleven which is required to be produced in court by any party shall be certified by the affidavit of the person in custody thereof to be a true and complete record, and shall be delivered by such hospital, dispensary or clinic, or sanatorium to the clerk of such court, who shall keep the same in his custody until its production is called for at the trial or hearing by the party requiring the said record. Such record, so certified and delivered shall be deemed to be sufficiently identified to be admissible in evidence if admissible in all other respects. The party requiring the production of said record and, in the discretion of the court, any other party may examine said record in the custody of the clerk at any time before it is produced in court. The clerk upon completion of such trial or hearing shall notify such hospital that said record is no longer required and will be returned to the hospital by certified mail unless an authorized representative of the hospital calls for the same at the office of said clerk within seven days of said notice.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 79a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 79a - Certified Copies of Public and Private Records

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 companies and hospitals, whether or not such records or copies are made by the photographic or microphotographic process, shall, when duly certified by the person in charge thereof, be admitted in evidence equally with the originals.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 79b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 79b - Fact Statements Published for Persons in Particular Occupation

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 public, shall, in the discretion of the court, if the court finds that the compilation is published for the use of persons engaged in that occupation and commonly is used and relied upon by them, be admissible in civil cases as evidence of the truth of any fact so stated.
MA Gen L ch 233 § 79c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title II - Actions and Proceedings Therein|Chapter 233 - Witnesses and Evidence|Section 79c - Statements of Fact or Opinion in Scientific Publication; Notice of Intention to Use

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 as the court shall find that the said statements are relevant and that the writer of such statements is recognized in his profession or calling as an expert on the subject, be admissible in actions of contract or tort for malpractice, error or mistake against physicians, surgeons, dentists, optometrists, hospitals and sanitaria, as evidence tending to prove said facts or as opinion evidence; provided, however, that the party intending to offer as evidence any such statements shall, not less than thirty days before the trial of the action, give the adverse party or his attorney notice of such intention, stating the name of the writer of the statements, the title of the treatise, periodical, book or pamphlet in which they are contained, the date of publication of the same, the name of the publisher of the same, and wherever possible or practicable the page or pages of the same on which the said statements appear.