The deposition shall be delivered by the justice or notary to the court, arbitrators, referees or other persons before whom the cause is pending, or shall be enclosed and sealed by him and directed to it or them, and shall remain sealed until opened by it or them.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 233, § 34
Delivery and preservation of deposition
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