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@ Suffolk Law School Last updated 2023-04-02

Civil Cover Sheet

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About This Form:

  • Sourced from www.mass.gov (2023-03)
  • Page(s): 1
  • Fields(s): 34
  • Average fields per page: 34
  • Reading Level: Grade 5
  • LIST Grouping(s): Unknown

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Identified Data Fields:

We have done our best to automaticly identify and name form fields according to our naming conventions. When possible, we've used names tied to our question library. See e.g., user1_name. If we think we've found a match to a question in our library, it is highlighted in green. Novel names are auto generated. So, you will probably need to edit some of them if you're trying to stick to the convention.

 
 
 

Here are the fields we could identify.

  • docke_number was DOCKET NUMBER (0.57 conf)
  • case_nos was Case Nos (0.42 conf)
  • signatur_e_f_selfrepresente_plaintiff was SIGNATURE OF SELFREPRESENTED PLAINTIFF (0.39 conf)
  • signatur_e_f_attorney was SIGNATURE OF ATTORNEY (0.47 conf)
  • bb_number was BBO NUMBER (0.47 conf)
  • dat_e was DATE_2 (0.40 conf)
  • first_plaintiff was First Plaintiff (0.50 conf)
  • first_defendant was First Defendant (0.45 conf)
  • zac was ZAC (0.42 conf)
  • zad was ZAD (0.48 conf)
  • signature_date was Date 1 (1.00 conf)
  • zja was ZJA (0.35 conf)
  • zen was ZEN (0.33 conf)
  • cot was COT (0.39 conf)
  • dom was DOM (0.39 conf)
  • lvt was LVT (0.31 conf)
  • mtb was MTB (0.44 conf)
  • mwa was MWA (0.35 conf)
  • mrc was MRC (0.40 conf)
  • cer was CER (0.48 conf)
  • mad was MAD (0.40 conf)
  • par was PAR (0.49 conf)
  • sp was SP (0.41 conf)
  • mbf was MBF (0.36 conf)
  • mfe was MFE (0.45 conf)
  • cnc was CNC (0.27 conf)
  • man was MAN (0.37 conf)
  • tre was TRE (0.43 conf)
  • eqa was EQA (0.35 conf)
  • aha was AHA (0.40 conf)
  • ota was OTA (0.41 conf)
  • red was RED (0.22 conf)
  • locu_addres_description was LOCUS ADDRESS or DESCRIPTION (0.31 conf)
  • cit_town was CITY or TOWN (0.38 conf)

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