Mass. Gen. Laws » Part III Title I Chapter 213
Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 213, § 5 (2026)

Transaction of business in any county

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MAmalegislature.gov (official) JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Section 5. The courts and the justices thereof, respectively, may in any county transact any business of such courts and direct the entry of any order, judgment or decree in an action, suit or proceeding pending in the same court in another county.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1929–1983 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Aldoupolis, 457 N.E.2d 268 (Mass. 1983).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Commonwealth v. Aldoupolis, 457 N.E.2d 268 (Mass. 1983). · cites it 2× “212, § 14, does not curtail the liberal statutory authority of a Superior Court judge under G. L. c. 213, § 5, to transact any court business and direct the entry of any order in an action pending in the same court in another county.”
Stoneman v. Coakley, 266 Mass. 64 (Mass. 1929). “The provision of G. L. c. 213, § 5, authorizing courts and justices thereof in any county to transact any business of such courts and direct the entry of any order, judgment or decree in an action, suit or proceeding pending in the same court in another county, was not intended…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.