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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 233, § 70 (2026)

Judicial notice of foreign law

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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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 21 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1926–2024 · leading case: Torre v. Harris-Seybold Co., 404 N.E.2d 96 (Mass. App. Ct. 1980).

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Torre v. Harris-Seybold Co., 404 N.E.2d 96 (Mass. App. Ct. 1980). · cites it 2× “7 It is not clear from the record if the judge’s attention was called to the New York statutes (G. L. c. 233, § 70), or if she was shown the pamphlet.”

Commonwealth v. Marinho, 981 N.E.2d 648 (Mass. 2013). “See G. L. c. 233, § 70 (“The courts shall take judicial notice of the law of the United States.”

Cote-Whitacre v. Dep't of Pub. Health, 446 Mass. 350 (Mass. 2006). “The plaintiff couples make no claim that they are a suspect class entitled to heightened scrutiny, except insofar as they are nonresidents entitled to the protections of the privileges and immunities clause provisions of the Federal Constitution.”

Productora E Importadora De Papel v. Fleming, 383 N.E.2d 1129 (Mass. 1978). “G. L. c. 233, § 70. 10 The allegations in PIPSA’s complaint that TMI’s late deliveries were not in conformity with the contract are inconclusive if other record evidence shows otherwise.”

Commonwealth v. Key, 407 N.E.2d 327 (Mass. 1980). “of this statute, G. L. c. 233, § 70, and conclude that Virginia law grants a deputy clerk the authority to take “charge of the records” as required by our statute and case law.”

Haran v. Bd. of Reg. in Med., 500 N.E.2d 268 (Mass. 1986). “30A, § 11 (5); G. L. c. 233, § 70 (1984 ed.). We need not be detained longer by this argument, as we have answered it in the earlier portion of this opinion.”

Valle v. Powertech Indus. Co., 381 F. Supp. 3d 151 (D.D.C. 2019). “" Mass. Gen. L. c. 233, § 70. An initial step in a choice-of-law analysis is "to determine whether there is an actual conflict between the substantive law of interested jurisdictions.”

Yankee Atomic Elec. Co. v. Sec'y of the Commonwealth, 403 Mass. 203 (Mass. 1988). “§§ 30 , 40, 50, 51, 70 & 72) (burden of decommissioning); G. L. c. 233, § 70 (1986 ed.) (Federal law is judicially noticeable); 44 U.”

Finer v. Steuer, 152 N.E. 220 (Mass. 1926). “The other books, offered to prove the law and admitted subject to the appellees’ exceptions, were published after 1878 and it could be found that they did not purport to be published by authority of the Austrian or Polish governments or that they were commonly used as evidence…”

Cameron v. Gunstock Acres, Inc., 348 N.E.2d 791 (Mass. 1976). “G. L. c. 233, § 70. In 1969 N.H. Rev. Stat.”

Bennett v. Bennett, 448 N.E.2d 77 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “It has not been established that the judge reached the result set out in the judgment because he (a) overvalued particular assets of Dr.”

Dicker v. Klein, 277 N.E.2d 514 (Mass. 1972). “On this issue we point out that, even though that law was not brought to the attention of the court below, we are nevertheless authorized to take judicial notice of it under G. L. c. 233, § 70. De Gategno v. *737 De Galegno, 336 Mass.”

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