The paper aims to contribute to the literature by explaining the different forms and methods by which the Cathedral Chapter, a particular subsystem of the wider clerical world, managed its wide land holdings. The aim of the study is to highlight the relationships between the clergy and the rural world in the 17th and 18th centuries. Basically, the study will be focused on the Chapter of the Cathedral of Sarzana, an important entity already mentioned in ancient documents like the Pelavicino Code of 1241
