Small Claims Standards: 1:01 Definitions

The Administrative Office of the Trial Court issues these Standards to assist judges, clerk-magistrates and other personnel of the District Court, Boston Municipal Court, and Housing Court Departments in implementing recently amended Trial Court Rule III, Uniform Small Claims Rules (effective January 1, 2002).

A. Court

Except where used to refer to a particular division of a department of the Trial Court, the term means the adjudicator, and is inclusive of clerk-magistrate, assistant clerk-magistrate, and judge.

B. Appeal

Refers to the subsequent trial before a jury of six or a judge without a jury guaranteed by G.L. c. 218, s. 23.