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Code · Massachusetts · Part III — COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES · Title II — PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES · Chapter 233

Section 53: Application to perpetuate testimony of nonresidents

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Section 53. The person who desires to take such deposition shall file in either of said courts the application provided for in section forty-six; and if the subject of the proposed deposition relates to land within the commonwealth, a copy of the application with the statement therein shall be filed in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land or any part thereof lies; otherwise, in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the parties or some of them reside.
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