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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 218, § 59 | Juvenile Ct — Powers, Duties and Procedure. |
Except as otherwise provided by law, the divisions of the juvenile court department shall have and exercise, within their respective jurisdictions, the same powers, duties, and procedure as the divisions of the district court department; and all laws relating to district courts or municipal courts in their respective counties or officials thereof or proceedings therein, shall, so far as applicable, apply to said divisions of the juvenile court department.
The divisions of the juvenile court department shall also have jurisdiction in equity concurrent with the supreme judicial court and with the superior court department in all cases and matters arising under the provisions of chapters 119 and 210. |
Juvenile Court Department | Jurisdiction of the courts |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 211A, § 1 | Court Established; Justices. |
There shall be an intermediate appellate court to be known as the appeals court. The appeals court shall consist of a chief justice and twenty-four associate justices. |
Massachusetts Appeals Court | Creation of the courts |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276A, § 2 | Jurisdiction — District Courts and Boston Municipal Court; Offender's Qualifications for Diversion. |
The district courts, and in Boston, the municipal court of the city of Boston, shall have jurisdiction to divert to a program, as defined in section one, any person who is charged with an offense or offenses against the commonwealth for which a term of imprisonment may be imposed and over which the district courts may exercise final jurisdiction and who has not previously been convicted of a violation of any law of the commonwealth or of any other state or of the United States in any criminal court proceeding after having reached the age of 18 years, except for traffic violations for which no term of imprisonment may have been imposed, who does not have any outstanding warrants, continuances, appeals or criminal cases pending before any courts of the commonwealth or any other state or of the United States, and who has received a recommendation from a program that he would, in light of the capacities of and guidelines governing it, benefit from participation in said program.
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Trial (Circuit and County) courts | Jurisdiction of the courts |
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Massachusetts | Mass. Const. Pt. 2, C. 3, art. IV | Provisions for Holding Probate Courts. |
The judges of probate of wills, and for granting letters of administration, shall hold their courts at such place or places, on fixed days, as the convenience of the people shall require; and the legislature shall, from time to time, hereafter appoint such times and places; until which appointments, the said courts shall be holden at the times and places which the respective judges shall direct.
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Probate Court | Creation of the courts |