ABSTRACT
The traditional teleology of legal history has, however, prevented much cross-fertilization with the history of other legal systems. Formal qualifications, control of professional standards, and the earning of a living through legal practice, for instance, are all important and became important at different stages in different areas. Practice in canon law has received more attention, notably from legal historians trained in the Anglo-American tradition, but this has not focused closely on twelfth-century origins. The obvious example of early professionalization with relatively little influence from Roman law, whether or not mediated through canon law, is England. The chapter illustrates some of the problems in the relationship between the study of Roman law and the development of new procedures by looking at a series of documents that were drawn up in the course of a long dispute about an estate belonging to the cathedral chapter of Verona.
