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PART III. COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES

TITLE II. ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS THEREIN

CHAPTER 223. COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS, SERVICE OF PROCESS

FORMS, ISSUING AND RETURN OF WRITS

Chapter 223: Section 20. Process; issuance

Section 20. Process in the supreme judicial and superior court shall be signed, and may be issued, by the clerk, shall bear teste of the first justice of the court who is not a party to the action, may be returnable to the same court in any other county, may run, and shall be executed and obeyed, throughout the commonwealth.