Vann, J. The law has made great progress in protecting members of the bar since Blackstone wrote that “ a counsel can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as looatio vel conductio, but as guiddam honorarium / not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a counselor cannot demand without doing wrong…
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