Council of Trent

Ed. and trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), 232-89.

Source: history.hanover.edu

Session 25.

• Live in accordance with the Rule
  All ReguIars shall order their lives in accordance with what is prescribed by the rule which they have professed; Superiors shall sedulously provide that this be done.
• Property is prohibited
  Property is wholly prohibited to Regulars.
• Common possessions
  All Monasteries save those herein excepted, shall be able to possess real property: the number of persons therein to be determined by the amount of Income, or of Alms. No Monasteries, to be erected without the Bishop’s leave.