Chapter 233 - WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE

Section 233:1 - Issuance of summonses for witnesses
Section 233:2 - Service of summons
Section 233:3 - Witness fees; payment or tender
Section 233:3A - Representation of commissioner of banks
Section 233:4 - Liability for nonattendance
Section 233:5 - Penalty for nonattendance; contempt
Section 233:6 - Warrant for nonattending witness
Section 233:7 - Witnesses before executive council
Section 233:8 - Bodies authorized to summon witnesses; oath
Section 233:9 - Warrant for witness failing to attend before nonjudicial tribunal
Section 233:10 - Enforcing attendance before nonjudicial tribunal
Section 233:11 - Requiring testimony
Section 233:12 - Summons for attendance at criminal trial outside state
Section 233:13 - Penalty for nonattendance outside state
Section 233:13A - Attendance of witnesses outside state; hearing and summons; failure to attend
Section 233:13B - Attendance of witness from another state; fees; failure to attend
Section 233:13C - Exemption from arrest and process of witnesses from outside state
Section 233:13D - Short title; construction of law
Section 233:14 - Persons authorized to administer oaths
Section 233:15 - Mode of administering oaths
Section 233:16 - Mode requested by affiant
Section 233:17 - Affirmation by Quakers
Section 233:18 - Affirmation for reasons of conscience
Section 233:19 - Oaths of non-Christians
Section 233:20 - Competency of witnesses; husband and wife; criminal defendant; parent and child
Section 233:20A - Privileged communications; communications with clergymen
Section 233:20B - Privileged communications; patients and psychotherapists; exceptions
Section 233:20C - Immunity from prosecution; privilege against self-incrimination
Section 233:20D - Crimes subject to immunity
Section 233:20E - Application for witness immunity by attorney general or district attorney; hearing; representation of witness; notice or waiver; transcript
Section 233:20G - Scope of immunity; copies of transcript of testimony compelled and documents furnished; availability to witness
Section 233:20H - Contempt of court; punishment; appeal
Section 233:20I - Necessity of corroborating testimony of, or evidence produced by, person granted immunity
Section 233:20J - Prior written consent of victim required
Section 233:20K - Domestic violence victims' counselors; confidential communications
Section 233:20L - Domestic violence victims' programs and rape crisis centers; confidential addresses
Section 233:20M - Human trafficking victims' caseworkers; confidential communication
Section 233:20N - Nondisclosure of personal information of social workers; service of process upon social workers
Section 233:20O - Confidentiality of Information provided by emergency service provider to certified emergency service provider or licensed mental health professional as part of crisis intervention services
Section 233:21 - Proof of conviction of crime to affect credibility
Section 233:21A - Evidence of reputation
Section 233:21B - Evidence of sex crime victim's sexual conduct; admission hearing; findings
Section 233:22 - Cross-examination of adverse party; corporation's agent as adverse party
Section 233:23 - Impeachment of party's own witness
Section 233:23A - Admissibility of written or recorded statements of party to personal injury action
Section 233:23B - Accused; statements made while undergoing psychiatric examination; admissibility
Section 233:23C - Work product of mediator confidential; confidential communications; exception; mediator defined
Section 233:23D - Admissibility of benevolent statements, writings or gestures relating to accident victims
Section 233:23E - Witnesses with mental retardation; alternative procedures for taking testimony
Section 233:23F - Admissibility of evidence of physical, sexual or psychological abuse and related expert testimony
Section 233:24 - Depositions in civil cases authorized
Section 233:24A - Medical witnesses
Section 233:25 - Grounds for deposition
Section 233:26 - Notice of taking deposition
Section 233:27 - Persons on whom notice may be served
Section 233:28 - Mode of service
Section 233:29 - Verbal notice; waiver of notice, etc.
Section 233:30 - Oath and examination of deponent
Section 233:31 - Order of examination
Section 233:32 - Mode of taking deposition
Section 233:33 - Certification of deposition
Section 233:34 - Delivery and preservation of deposition
Section 233:35 - Exclusion of deposition
Section 233:36 - Objections to deposition
Section 233:37 - Use of deposition in second action
Section 233:38 - Compelling giving of deposition; place
Section 233:39 - Place of taking deposition of nonresident found within commonwealth
Section 233:40 - Rules for taking depositions
Section 233:41 - Taking deposition outside commonwealth
Section 233:42 - Written interrogatories; notice to adverse party; production of documents
Section 233:43 - Rules for taking depositions outside of commonwealth
Section 233:44 - Foreign depositions obtained contrary to statute
Section 233:45 - Deposition for use in another state
Section 233:46 - Application to take deposition to perpetuate testimony
Section 233:47 - Notice of taking deposition; compelling testimony
Section 233:48 - Objections to taking deposition; procedure
Section 233:49 - Mode of taking deposition
Section 233:50 - Recording deposition
Section 233:51 - Use of deposition in action
Section 233:52 - Perpetuation of testimony of nonresidents
Section 233:53 - Application to perpetuate testimony of nonresidents
Section 233:54 - Notice of taking deposition
Section 233:55 - Issuance of commission
Section 233:56 - Written interrogatories
Section 233:57 - Rules for perpetuation of testimony of witnesses without commonwealth
Section 233:58 - Use of deposition
Section 233:59 - Perpetuation of testimony for use against all persons
Section 233:60 - Application for deposition
Section 233:61 - Naming persons interested; notice of taking deposition
Section 233:62 - Recording deposition
Section 233:63 - Use of deposition against any person
Section 233:64 - Admissibility of dying declaration of woman
Section 233:65 - Admissibility of declaration of decedent
Section 233:65A - Admissibility of deceased party's answers to interrogatories
Section 233:66 - Evidence in actions against an executor or administrator
Section 233:67 - Evidence in equity; general rule
Section 233:68 - Proof of signature
Section 233:69 - Records of courts of other states or United States
Section 233:70 - Judicial notice of foreign law
Section 233:73 - Foreign oaths and affidavits
Section 233:74 - Evidence of acts of incorporation
Section 233:75 - Admissibility of printed copies of acts of legislative and administrative bodies
Section 233:76 - Admissibility of authenticated records of governmental departments
Section 233:76A - Authenticated copies of documents filed with securities and exchange commission
Section 233:76B - Printed copies of schedules, classifications and tariffs filed with interstate commerce commission
Section 233:77 - Authenticated copies of records of banks and trust companies
Section 233:77A - Bank account statement together with legible copy of check; prima facie proof of payment
Section 233:78 - Entry, writing or record made in regular course of business; impeachment
Section 233:79 - Records and copies of records of hospitals and certain institutions; admissibility as evidence
Section 233:79A - Certified copies of public and private records
Section 233:79B - Fact statements published for persons in particular occupation
Section 233:79C - Statements of fact or opinion in scientific publication; notice of intention to use
Section 233:79D - Photographic copies of newspaper in library; prints from photographic films
Section 233:79E - Reproductions of public or business records
Section 233:79F - Proof of public way
Section 233:79G - Medical and hospital services; evidence
Section 233:79H - Tort actions for personal injuries or death; admissibility of reports of deceased physicians
Section 233:79I - Actions to recover from insurer for theft of personal property from motor vehicle or trailer; prima facie evidence of forcible entry into vehicle
Section 233:79J - Business records required to be produced in court; certification, admissibility and inspection; copies
Section 233:79K - Duplicate of a computer data file or program file; admissibility
Section 233:79L - Inadmissibility of statements of benevolence, regret, sympathy, etc., made by health care providers as evidence in claim, complaint or civil action
Section 233:80 - Transcripts from stenographic notes
Section 233:81 - Out-of-court statements of child under ten describing acts of sexual contact with such child; admissibility in criminal proceedings
Section 233:82 - Out-of-court statements of child under ten describing acts of sexual contact with such child; admissibility in civil proceedings
Section 233:83 - Out-of-court statements of child under ten describing acts of sexual contact with such child; admissibility in certain actions involving social services department