Chapter 233

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Chapter 233: WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE

• Section 1 Issuance of summonses for witnesses
• Section 2 Service of summons
• Section 3 Witness fees; payment or tender
• Section 3A Representation of commissioner of banks
• Section 4 Liability for nonattendance
• Section 5 Penalty for nonattendance; contempt
• Section 6 Warrant for nonattending witness
• Section 7 Witnesses before executive council
• Section 8 Bodies authorized to summon witnesses; oath
• Section 9 Warrant for witness failing to attend before nonjudicial tribunal
• Section 10 Enforcing attendance before nonjudicial tribunal
• Section 11 Requiring testimony
• Section 12 Summons for attendance at criminal trial outside state
• Section 13 Penalty for nonattendance outside state
• Section 13A Attendance of witnesses outside state; hearing and summons; failure to attend
• Section 13B Attendance of witness from another state; fees; failure to attend
• Section 13C Exemption from arrest and process of witnesses from outside state
• Section 13D Short title; construction of law
• Section 14 Persons authorized to administer oaths
• Section 15 Mode of administering oaths
• Section 16 Mode requested by affiant
• Section 17 Affirmation by Quakers
• Section 18 Affirmation for reasons of conscience
• Section 19 Oaths of non–Christians
• Section 20 Competency of witnesses; husband and wife; criminal defendant; parent and child
• Section 20A Privileged communications; communications with clergymen
• Section 20B Privileged communications; patients and psychotherapists; exceptions
• Section 20C Immunity from prosecution; privilege against self-incrimination
• Section 20D Crimes subject to immunity
• Section 20E Application for witness immunity by attorney general or district attorney; hearing; representation of witness; notice or waiver; transcript
• Section 20F Repealed, 1998, 188, Sec. 5
• Section 20G Scope of immunity; copies of transcript of testimony compelled and documents furnished; availability to witness
• Section 20H Contempt of court; punishment; appeal
• Section 20I Necessity of corroborating testimony of, or evidence produced by, person granted immunity
• Section 20J Sexual assault; confidential communications with sexual assault counsellor; disclosure; discovery
• Section 20K Domestic violence victims' counselors; confidential communications
• Section 20L Confidentiality of domestic violence victims' program and rape crisis center locations
• Section 20M Disclosure of confidential communication regarding human trafficking victim by caseworker
• Section 20N Disclosure of home address or personal telephone number of social worker employed by the department of children and families
• Section 21 Proof of conviction of crime to affect credibility
• Section 21A Evidence of reputation
• Section 21B Evidence of sex crime victim's sexual conduct; admission hearing; findings
• Section 22 Cross-examination of adverse party; corporation's agent as adverse party
• Section 23 Impeachment of party's own witness
• Section 23A Admissibility of written or recorded statements of party to personal injury action
• Section 23B Accused; statements made while undergoing psychiatric examination; admissibility
• Section 23C Work product of mediator confidential; confidential communications; exception; mediator defined
• Section 23D Admissibility of benevolent statements, writings or gestures relating to accident victims
• Section 23E Alternative procedure for determining competency of witnesses with an intellectual disability
• Section 23F Admissibility of past physical, sexual or psychological abuse of defendant
• Section 24 Depositions in civil cases authorized
• Section 24A Medical witnesses
• Section 25 Grounds for deposition
• Section 26 Notice of taking deposition
• Section 27 Persons on whom notice may be served
• Section 28 Mode of service
• Section 29 Verbal notice; waiver of notice, etc.
• Section 30 Oath and examination of deponent
• Section 31 Order of examination
• Section 32 Mode of taking deposition
• Section 33 Certification of deposition
• Section 34 Delivery and preservation of deposition
• Section 35 Exclusion of deposition
• Section 36 Objections to deposition
• Section 37 Use of deposition in second action
• Section 38 Compelling giving of deposition; place
• Section 39 Place of taking deposition of nonresident found within commonwealth
• Section 40 Rules for taking depositions
• Section 41 Taking deposition outside commonwealth
• Section 42 Written interrogatories; notice to adverse party; production of documents
• Section 43 Rules for taking depositions outside of commonwealth
• Section 44 Foreign depositions obtained contrary to statute
• Section 45 Deposition for use in another state
• Section 46 Application to take deposition to perpetuate testimony
• Section 47 Notice of taking deposition; compelling testimony
• Section 48 Objections to taking deposition; procedure
• Section 49 Mode of taking deposition
• Section 50 Recording deposition
• Section 51 Use of deposition in action
• Section 52 Perpetuation of testimony of nonresidents
• Section 53 Application to perpetuate testimony of nonresidents
• Section 54 Notice of taking deposition
• Section 55 Issuance of commission
• Section 56 Written interrogatories
• Section 57 Rules for perpetuation of testimony of witnesses without commonwealth
• Section 58 Use of deposition
• Section 59 Perpetuation of testimony for use against all persons
• Section 60 Application for deposition
• Section 61 Naming persons interested; notice of taking deposition
• Section 62 Recording deposition
• Section 63 Use of deposition against any person
• Section 64 Admissibility of dying declaration of woman
• Section 65 Admissibility of declaration of decedent
• Section 65A Admissibility of deceased party's answers to interrogatories
• Section 66 Evidence in actions against an executor or administrator
• Section 67 General rule
• Section 68 Proof of signature
• Section 69 Records of courts of other states or United States
• Section 70 Judicial notice of foreign law
• Section 71, 72 Repealed, 1926, 168, Sec. 2
• Section 73 Foreign oaths and affidavits
• Section 74 Evidence of acts of incorporation
• Section 75 Admissibility of printed copies of acts of legislative and administrative bodies
• Section 76 Admissibility of authenticated records of governmental departments
• Section 76A Authenticated copies of documents filed with securities and exchange commission
• Section 76B Printed copies of schedules, classifications and tariffs filed with interstate commerce commission
• Section 77 Authenticated copies of records of banks and trust companies
• Section 77A Bank account statement together with legible copy of check; prima facie proof of payment
• Section 78 Entry, writing or record made in regular course of business; impeachment
• Section 79 Records and copies of records of hospitals and certain institutions; admissibility in evidence
• Section 79A Certified copies of public and private records
• Section 79B Fact statements published for persons in particular occupation
• Section 79C Statements of fact or opinion in scientific publication; notice of intention to use
• Section 79D Photographic copies of newspaper in library; prints from photographic films
• Section 79E Reproductions of public or business records
• Section 79F Proof of public way
• Section 79G Medical and hospital services; evidence
• Section 79H Tort actions for personal injuries or death; admissibility of reports of deceased physicians
• Section 79I Actions to recover from insurer for theft of personal property from motor vehicle or trailer; prima facie evidence of forcible entry into vehicle
• Section 79J Business records required to be produced in court; certification, admissibility and inspection; copies
• Section 79K Duplicate of computer data file or program file; admissibility
• Section 79L Statements or conduct expressing regret, apology, condolence by health care provider; admissibility
• Section 80 Transcripts from stenographic notes
• Section 81 Criminal proceedings; out-of-court statements describing sexual contact; admissibility
• Section 82 Civil proceedings; out-of-court statements describing sexual contact; admissibility
• Section 83 Custody hearings; out-of-court statements describing sexual contact; admissibility