2006 Massachusetts Code - Section 51. Failure to pay client\'s money; penalty.

Section 51. An attorney at law who unreasonably neglects to pay over money collected by him for and in behalf of a client, when demanded by the client, shall forfeit to such client five times the lawful interest of the money from the time of the demand.

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