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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, § 124 (2026)

Legal notice; penalty for malicious injury

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Section 124. Whoever wilfully and maliciously, or wantonly and without cause, tears down, removes or defaces a warrant for a town meeting, list of jurors or other notice or paper which has been posted in compliance with law shall, except as otherwise provided, be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars.

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Cited in 1 case, 1928–1928 · leading case: Commonwealth v. St. John, 159 N.E. 599 (Mass. 1928).
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Commonwealth v. St. John, 159 N.E. 599 (Mass. 1928). “370, the taking of shellfish from an area such as that above described is prohibited, and that any one who took shellfish from such an area or transported or had in his possession shellfish so taken was liable to fine or imprisonment to an extent there stated, and that pursuant…”
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