Section 64 - Limitation of New Indictment Against Corporation After Abatement or Defeat of Former Indictment

MA Gen L ch 277 § 64 (2019) (N/A)
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Section 64. If an indictment, duly found and returned within the time limited by law against a corporation to recover a pecuniary penalty, is abated or otherwise avoided or defeated by reason of any matter of form, or if after a verdict against such corporation judgment is arrested, or if a judgment against such corporation is reversed on writ of error, a new indictment for the same cause may be found and filed within one year after the abatement of the former indictment or the reversal of the judgment as aforesaid.