Lantner v. Carson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that with respect to Chapter 93A, the Massachusetts Legislature intended “persons engaged in the conduct of any trade or commerce” to “refer specifically to individuals acting in a business context”
• holding that Massachusetts's Consumer Protection Act does not apply to private real estate transactions
• applying this rule to the phrase “in the conduct of any trade or commerce” in Chapter 93A
• G. L. c. 93A not applicable to transaction “strictly private in nature, and ... in no way undertaken in the ordinary course of a trade or business”
• remedies set forth in M.G.L.c. 93A not applicable to the private sale of real estate
• words used in one place within statute are to be given same meaning when found in other places in that statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).