The supreme judicial court may make rules for taking depositions to perpetuate the testimony of witnesses without the commonwealth, taken under a commission from the supreme judicial or the superior court, and for filing or recording them.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 233, § 57
Rules for perpetuation of testimony of witnesses without commonwealth
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