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    The Massachusetts Land Court is one of the departments of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The court is unique among the courts of...
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    Massachusetts Land Court Massachusetts Housing Court Massachusetts Juvenile Court Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Administrative courts Massachusetts Appellate...
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  • branch Hawaii Land Court Massachusetts Land Court Virginia Land Court Commission United States Court of Private Land Claims (1891–1904) Land Court of colonial...
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    Man's Land Island, MA". Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields. Retrieved February 21, 2017. The town of Chilmark petitioned the Massachusetts General Court to...
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    The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America...
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    The Massachusetts Appeals Court is the intermediate appellate court of Massachusetts. It was created in 1972 as a court of general appellate jurisdiction...
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    University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. In 1639, the Massachusetts General Court purchased the land that became present-day Cambridge from the Naumkeag...
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  • compensation. The decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the case Commonwealth v. Alger (1851) was related to land-use planning and dealt with...
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    and Vermont to its north, and New York to its west. Massachusetts is the sixth-smallest state by land area. With over seven million residents as of 2020...
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  • The Massachusetts Housing Court (also known as the Housing Court Department of the Trial Court) is a trial court in Massachusetts that hears eviction...
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    was especially hated in Massachusetts where he angered virtually everyone by rigidly enforcing the Navigation Acts, vacating land titles, appropriating...
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  • Superior Court (14 divisions) Massachusetts District Court Massachusetts Boston Municipal Court Massachusetts Land Court Massachusetts Housing Court Massachusetts...
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  • Michael A. Sullivan (judge) (category Judges of the Massachusetts Land Court)
    served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Land Court. Sullivan was born on August 13, 1879, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy...
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  • Massachusetts is governed by a set of political tenets laid down in its state constitution. Legislative power is held by the bicameral General Court,...
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    of the Massachusetts Trial Court. The legislation also transferred ownership of the two Superior Courthouses to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The hospital...
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    settlers in the Puritan Great Migration. In 1639, the Massachusetts General Court purchased the land that would become present-day Lexington, then within...
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    Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. The building houses the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature)...
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    Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census, the town population was 70, making it the least populous town in Massachusetts. Most of the...
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    dog along the beach. Borgerson and Maxwell filed documents in Massachusetts Land Court about Borgerson's residence, known as Phippin House, during a civil...
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  • former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts Michael A. Sullivan (judge) (1879–1937), chief justice of the Massachusetts Land Court Michael T. Sullivan (1924–2007)...
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    buildings and tennis courts now occupy most of this land, and most newer dorms were actually built or purchased west of Massachusetts Avenue. In the 21st...
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    area that is now Massachusetts was colonized by English settlers in the early 17th century and became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 18th century...
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    only in their form of government. There is no unincorporated land in Massachusetts. The land area of the state is completely divided up among the 351 municipalities...
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    and General Court did not look favorably upon the resolution, however, and no new county was then created. Norfolk County, Massachusetts was created on...
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    Winthrop, the first colonial governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was granted 600 acres (240 hectares) of land in the area in 1631. Named for the ten small...
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  • of Massachusetts and administrative tribunals. The seven Trial Court departments are the: Superior Court District Court Land Court Housing Court Juvenile...
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    abandoned agriculture for fishing. On September 6, 1638, the General Court of Massachusetts created a plantation on behalf of several petitioners from Newbury...
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    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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  • Taunton, Massachusetts, were taken into trust on their behalf by the US Department of Interior in 2015, establishing these parcels as reservation land. Indigenous...
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    Because Chickatabot and Pynchon's deal left no written deed, the Massachusetts General Court ordered "those Indians who were present when Chickatabot sold...
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