# Massachusetts — Small Claims Court Dollar Limits by State

For Massachusetts, dollar limit is $7,000; court name is district court department and the Boston municipal court department; statute citation is Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 218, § 21, recorded from its source on 2026-08-31.

- **state:** Massachusetts _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **dollar limit:** $7,000 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **court name:** district court department and the Boston municipal court department _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **statute citation:** Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 218, § 21 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> Section 21. There shall be within the district court department and the Boston municipal court department a simple, informal and inexpensive procedure, hereinafter called the procedure, for the determination, according to the rules of substantive law, of claims in the nature of contract or tort, other than slander and libel, in which the plaintiff does not claim as debt or damages more than $7,000

## Source

- https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleI/Chapter218/Section21

Last verified: 2026-08-31. Review by: 2027-08-31.
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