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INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Taylor v. Beaudry, 82 Mass. App. Ct. 105 (2012)

Citation
Taylor v. Beaudry, 82 Mass. App. Ct. 105 (2012)
Parent Document
Taylor v. Beaudry, 82 Mass. App. Ct. 105 (2012)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
2012-07-09

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If “return” includes mailing, the statute would not place the burden of the vagaries of postal delivery upon the residential landlord. On the other hand, the strictness of the statute is well known, and ensuring that a tenant actually receives a security deposit within thirty days of moving out might have been consistent with the legislative determination that failure to timely return security deposits is a serious and deeply entrenched problem warranting the unusual sanction of multiple damages. See Mellor v. Berman, 390 Mass. 275, 282 (1983).