MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES & CASES
STATUTES
Massachusetts law is comprised of the General Laws (i.e. statutes) enacted by the General Court (i.e. the legislature), regulations promulgated by various state agencies, and cases decided by Massachusetts courts. The
General Laws are available at the Massachusetts General Court web site (more recent
Session Laws that have not yet been codified are also available at that site, as is the
Massachusetts Constitution).
The General Laws are divided into four parts:
Massachusetts Regulations are also codified in the
Code of Massachusetts Regulations, which can be found at the Trial Court Law Libraries site.

CASES
Recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cases, Appeals Court cases and some Superior Court cases are on-line at the following sites:
In addition to statutes and cases, there are also
Executive Orders promulgated by the governor, which are available at the Trial Court Law Library site.
Information on various Massachusetts law topics is also available at the web sites for the
Massachusetts Bar Association and the
Trial Court Law Library, as well as the
Mass. Legal Help and
Neighborhood Law
sites. And there are many law dictionaries on the internet, including databases provided by
law.com,
lawinfo.com and
findlaw.com.
At the federal level, there are sites containing the
Constitution, the
U.S. Code and the
Code of Federal Regulations, as well as opinions from the
Appeals Court and the
District Court in Massachusetts, and the
U.S. Supreme Court.
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