Connecticut’s 1650 code was overwhelmingly copied from Massachusetts

Evidence

The Massachusetts example is the most striking. The Laws and Liberties of 1648 were widely emulated. Of seventy-​eight provisions in Robert Ludlow’s Connecticut code of 1650, twenty-​two were copied, almost verbatim, from the Massachusetts code, thirty-​six were adopted with certain deletions or amendments, six came from other Massachusetts sources, and only fourteen (chiefly on local matters) were “original.” — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 499

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• XREF: connects to: Colonial statute borrowing made Massachusetts and Virginia legal exporters — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 498