Massachusetts Statutes
§ 26 — Records; custody
Massachusetts § 26
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IIICOURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES
Title ICOURTS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS
Ch. 212THE SUPERIOR COURT
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Bluebook
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 212, § 26 (2026).
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Section 26. The records of courts, including electronic records, which are transferred to the superior court shall remain in custody of the clerks, whether in physical or electronic form. In Suffolk county, the clerk of said court for civil business shall have the custody of said records in civil cases, and the clerk for criminal business shall have the custody of said records in criminal cases. Copies of said records may be certified by said clerks respectively. Judicial writs and processes which are founded upon such records shall issue under the seal, which may be electronically imprinted, of the superior court, in like manner and with the same effect as similar writs and processes founded upon its own records.
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