Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 213, § 6 (2026)
Duration of sittings; adjournments
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Section 6. Regular sittings of the courts for the transaction of civil or criminal business shall commence on the day appointed therefor and end on the day preceding the day appointed for the commencement of the next regular sitting in such county for the transaction of the same kind of business. Such regular sittings may at any time be adjourned from time to time or without day, and such adjournment shall excuse the attendance during the adjournment of all persons required to attend at the sitting, unless expressly notified to attend, but shall not otherwise terminate the sitting.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1974–1983 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Mandile, 443 N.E.2d 1333 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983).
Commonwealth v. Mandile, 443 N.E.2d 1333 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “45(c) and 6(c) (rescinded, effective July 1, 1966), and Advisory Committee Report, 5 F.”
Commonwealth v. Bartoloni, 309 N.E.2d 530 (Mass. App. Ct. 1974). “212, §§ 14, 14A and 20; G. L. c. 213, § 6), could not have failed to realize that the case on trial was one of “a series of cases involving crimes committed at Norfolk and Walpole.”
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