Docket defined — Massachusetts Code § 9B
Massachusetts Code § 9B — Docket defined. Reproduced from the official Massachusetts General Laws, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 9B. Docket defined
Section 9B. The docket is hereby defined as a record wherein their clerk shall register, by its title or by an abstract, and numbered consecutively, every action, suit and proceeding commenced before or transferred or appealed to the commissioners, and also contracts filed as required by section seventeen. He shall note therein, according to the date thereof, the filing or return of any paper or process, the making of any decree, adjudication, order, rule or other direction, or any amendment thereof, in or concerning such matter.
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- Citation: Massachusetts General Laws § 9B
- Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
- Code: Massachusetts General Laws
- Subject: Docket defined
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