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By the mid-fourteenth century, professional associations of canon lawyers (legal advocates in Christian ecclesiastical courts, which dealt with cases involving marriage, inheritance, and other issues) had appeared in most of Western Europe, and a body of professional standards had been defined for them. ███

Intro topic · Professional associations of canon lawyers in the mid-14th century

These are lawyers in Christian religious courts. They had professional standards and were common in Western Europe.

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Puzzling phenomenon · The associations didn't have big role in enforcing professional standards

Some even tried to stop efforts to enforce standards (example: Florentine guild).

Two potential hypotheses · Lawyers almost never violated standards, or disciplinary mechanisms were inefficient

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Author's perspective · Disciplinary mechanisms were probably inefficient

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Support 1 · English civil courts (non-religious) have much more disciplinary action

Those courts had ethical standards similar to the religious courts. So, disparity in number of disciplinary actions is probably due to religious courts' inefficient enforcement mechanisms. It's unlikely that religious lawyers were simply much more unethical than civil lawyers.

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Support 2 · Lots of complaints by church authorities about unethical lawyers and inefficient disciplinary system

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Result of complaints (related to support 2) · Induced religious lawyers to defend themselves from criticism

Complaints may have encouraged lawyers to form professional associations and to de-prioritize disciplining fellow lawyers.

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Phenomenon-hypothesis (RC)

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Supported.

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Anti-supported.

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Unsupported. There’s no comparison between English civil lawyers and civil lawyers in other nations.

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Unsupported. There’s no claim about what ecclesiastical courts were modeled upon.

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Unsupported. There’s no comparison about overall record-keeping among church courts and civil law courts. Although there are more examples of discipline among civil law records than among church court records, that doesn’t tell us anything about general thoroughness of record-keeping.

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