Annual returns and abstracts of court cases, 1872-1935.

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Annual returns and abstracts of court cases, 1872-1935.

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St 1852, c 289 provided that justices of the peace in Massachusetts (those designated to try criminal cases called trial justices per St 1859, c 193) should provide returns with statistical and fiscal data for criminal cases tried, annually to the state secretary (police court justices were likewise so required per St 1859, c 201), who was to make abstracts thereof for the General Court. Per St 1881, c 66, such returns were to be made instead to the commissioners of prisons. While this obligation continued, St 1905, c 321 mandated returns for civil cases to the state secretary by clerks of superior courts. Criminal business was also included per St 1924, c 131. St 1936, c 32 directed these returns instead to the Judicial Council. Series includes returns/abstracts for part of the first and all of the second period when the state secretary received returns of criminal cases; for the latter, civil cases are included.

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