{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-214-12","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 214, § 12","heading":"Summoning of jury","body":"Section 12. If there is no regular sitting of the supreme judicial court within three months after the framing of such issues, a justice thereof may order the clerk of the courts for the county in which the cause is pending to summon a jury to try such issues, and the proceedings at such trial shall be in all respects the same as in a trial at a regular sitting.","path":["Part III","Title I","Chapter 214"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleI/Chapter214/Section12","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:24:43Z","sha256":"1d5716b1de88559e397005eeede964fa8bb36cf1a22c8a9b4b369d4942d2968d","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-214-11","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-214-13"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}