Note 271 — Chapter II
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Charter and Laws, 507; I Colonial Records 123, 2, 2 mo. 1686. This was not a new idea, as Massachusetts in 1641 and Virginia in 1645 had attempted by legislation to prevent attorneys from pleading for remuneration. Baldwin on Constitutional Law in Two Centuries’ Growth of American Law, 14; see also, II Connecticut Colonial Records, 59.