* that a meeting for the election of a pope should be held at a suitable place, where the Pope and his Curia were residing when the Pope died; if they were at a villa, or a country village, or a town, they should proceed to the nearest city in the diocese (unless it was under an interdict).
* that a meeting for the election of a pope should not take place until the space of at least ten days had intervened;
* that all cardinals who were absent from the Conclave should have no right to cast a vote;
* that not only absent cardinals, but also men of every order and condition, are eligible to be created the Roman pontiff;
* that, at the conclusion of the ''Novendiales'', and the Mass of the Holy Spirit sung on the tenth day, all the cardinals who are present should be enclosed in the palace where the Pope died; along with two or, if they are ill, three or four servants; none may enter or leave, except on account of illness. There should be no interior walls, but each cardinal's quarters should be separated from the rest by cloth drapes, and they should live in common.
* that the place of the conclave and its entries should be carefully guarded;
* that the Cardinals may not leave the Conclave for any reason, until a new pope has been elected;
* that Cardinals who arrive after the enclosing of the Conclave, and before the election of a new pope, have the power to enter the Conclave and vote along with the others, and no Cardinal can be excluded for any reason, not even if he be excommunicated;
* that, if a pope has not been elected in three days, then cardinals are permitted to have only one dish at their meals;
* that, in holding the deliberations, no one is to be put under an anathema, no one is to engage in bribery, or to make any promises, or by going around politicking to promise a cardinal anything once he has been created pope. During the Conclave, the cardinals are to engage in no other business than completing the election;
* that no one can be elected pope with out the votes of two-thirds of the Cardinals present in the Conclave;
* that, upon the death of a pope, all magistracies and offices cease and vacate their functions, except for the Major Penitentiary and the Minor Penitentiaries, and the Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church (Camerlengo).