[Constitutiones synodales ecclesiae Constantiensis, 1481]

...inquisition of this kind in writing. If he neglects to do this, he shall incur the penalty of suspension from the office of divine services once the said space of two months has elapsed, a penalty which any of the brothers who, being asked about the aforementioned matters, knowingly conceals them from the dean, shall incur in like manner. Truly, because some, under the pretext of apostolic letters which they pretend to have obtained, presume to occupy vacant ecclesiastical benefices by their own temerity, to the peril of their souls, we ordain that henceforth every dean or his deputy shall report or notify us or our vicar within the space of a month from the time of such acquisition, both the names of those who have obtained ecclesiastical benefices within his deanery by virtue of apostolic letters and also the names of the patrons of those same benefices. Otherwise, if the said month has elapsed, he shall incur a similar penalty as stated above. The time given by law for ecclesiastical patrons to confer benefices shall be understood as six months, and for laymen, four months.

Concerning the same.

Furthermore, we decree and ordain that every dean or his deputy, within the first three months from the publication of these presents, shall require all his brethren and other secular and religious priests within his deanery officiating in ecclesiastical benefices—whose titles, investitures, or inductions are unknown to him—to show him the investitures, titles, or inductions of their benefices by our authority in writing, with the insertion of the cause of suspension. And henceforth, no one shall knowingly tolerate or admit anyone to officiate in any ecclesiastical benefice within his deanery unless he has first shown him the title, investiture, or sealed inductions. But if a dean presumes to tolerate such persons who do not show their letters to him as stated above, in the rule and officiating of an ecclesiastical benefice contrary to the aforesaid, by not suspending him as commanded above, then once another fifteen days have elapsed, the dean himself shall incur the sentence of suspension for his negligence of this kind, automatically. Let the form of suspension that deans should deliver in writing be as follows: Because you, having been warned to show the title or induction of your benefice within the space of fifteen days, have not obeyed this mandate and have not shown the title, therefore, by the authority granted to me, I suspend you in these writings from divine services and declare you suspended. We wish this form to be observed also in inflicting other censures according to the requirement of the cases.

Concerning the same.

Considering that rural deans are established so that they may procure the honesty of the clergy and the utility of their brethren, report their excesses, duly execute the mandates of our vicar and our official, and bring to the notice of their brethren everything that is commanded by their superiors—things which they cannot fulfill while absent from their deaneries—we decree and ordain that every dean of our Diocese of Constance shall be bound to reside personally within his deanery. We decree that deans absent from their deaneries, unless they effectively return to residence within the first month from the publication of these presents, and also those who henceforth absent themselves from their deaneries for the purpose of residing elsewhere or establishing and maintaining a domicile outside their deanery,