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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 197

Citation
Section 197
Parent Document
Sycamore Land Corp. v. Thompson, 1 Mass. L. Rptr. 489 (1994)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
1994-01-28

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Legislative or regulatory provisions abating rent as of the date the breach occurs maximize a landlord’s incentive to inspect her property, uncover potential breaches and take prompt corrective action. Indeed, limiting legislative or regulatory power to abate rents to the period someone could prove that the landlord had notice of a breach of warranty would encourage the kind of purposeful disregard of substandard conditions that is fundamentally at war with the purposes for the warranty itself.