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:—
For Barnstable, at Barnstable;
For Berkshire, at Pittsfield;
For Bristol, at Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River;
For Dukes county, at Edgartown;
For Essex, at Salem, Lawrence and Newburyport;
For Franklin, at Greenfield;
For Hampden, at Springfield;
For Hampshire, at Northampton;
For Middlesex, at Lowell and Cambridge;
For Nantucket, at Nantucket;
For Norfolk, at Dedham;
For Plymouth, at Plymouth and Brockton;
For Suffolk, at Boston;
For Worcester, at Worcester and Fitchburg.
Said court may adjourn any sitting or session from one place to another within the county, whether or not it be to a place mentioned in this section, in the manner and with the effect of adjournment to another shire town, and such adjournment shall be subject to all the laws relative to adjournment to another shire town. Said court may hold sittings for naturalization in any city or town.
Notes of Decisions
Commonwealth v. Aldoupolis, 457 N.E.2d 268 (Mass. 1983).
· cites it 2× “7 The Commonwealth also advances the argument that the power of a Superior Court judge to order a trial is limited to the times and places of its regular sittings within the same county as set forth in G. L. c. 212, § 14. 8 See Commonwealth v.”
Commonwealth v. Handren, 158 N.E. 894 (Mass. 1927).
· cites it 2× “As respects the place of trial within the county where the offence was committed, the power of the court was restricted when the indictment in the case at bar was found to the time and place provided by G. L. c. 212, § 14, unless the Chief Justice of that court had arranged for…”
Hadfield v. Commonwealth, 439 N.E.2d 279 (Mass. 1982).
“Specifically, they contend that G. L. c. 212, § 14, requires “regular” sittings of the Superior Court in Franklin County; that those regular sittings have been established for September, January, March, and May, and may not be changed except upon public notice as required by G.”
Commonwealth v. Bartoloni, 309 N.E.2d 530 (Mass. App. Ct. 1974).
“The jury, which (as the defendant’s counsel urged at oral argument) were by then serving in the third week of a regular sitting of the Superior Court at Dedham held for the transaction of criminal business (see G. L. c. 212, §§ 14, 14A and 20; G. L. c.”
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