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Section 1Number of justices
Section 2Quorum
Section 2AStatement of expenses and costs
Section 3Superintendence of inferior courts; power to issue writs and process
Section 3AAdministrative assistant
Section 3BConferences of judges
Section 3C to 3FRepealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 99
Section 3GRepealed, 1988, 164, Sec. 138; 1988, 206, Sec. 3
Section 4Removal of officers
Section 4ATransfer of causes between supreme judicial court and lower courts
Section 5Questions of law; hearing by full court
Section 6Questions of law; reservation
Section 7Questions of law; argument; order
Section 8Judgment or rescript after decision
Section 9Records and rescripts; contents
Section 10Frivolous appeals; costs and interest
Section 11Repealed, 1973, 1114, Sec. 50
Section 12Law sittings; adjournments
Section 13Repealed, 1961, 106, Sec. 2
Section 14Transfer of cases by full court
Section 15Criminal cases; hearings
Section 16Hearing in Boston of questions arising in other counties
Section 17Jury sittings; times and places of sittings
Section 18Sittings at Fall River; adjournments
Section 19Dukes or Nantucket county cases; place of trial
Section 20Powers of justices at jury and law sittings
Section 21Audit of accounts
Section 22Salaries of justices; expenses; practice of law prohibited
Section 23Court employees
Section 24Services of retired justices
Section 25Disability benefits project
Section 26Program for evaluation of judicial performance
Section 26AQuestionnaires for performance evaluation program; contents; distribution, collection, etc.; frequency of evaluations
Section 26BJudicial evaluation standards; disciplinary procedures
Section 27Pre-service and in-service training programs for justices; administration
Section 28Leave of absence for study, research, etc.; restrictions