TITULUS V.
OF THE DECLARATION.
§ 46. If any one has no desire to either fore or after drink, or to concern himself in beer-suits, he must cause this to be declared by a beer-honourable Beer-bursch. If from the beginning he drinks no beer at the kneip, he need not declare himself.
47. He who receives this declaration is bound to proclaim it aloud.
48. The declared may not be challenged in beer. Should this happen, the challenger must instantly revoke, or he will be condemned in a viertel. If the declarer challenges, he falls under the same penalty.
49. If any one has already drunken beer in the kneip, and then says, without having declared himself, that he goes away, he must not accept a challenge. But if he remains in the kneip five minutes after this declaration of going away, then every one can fore-drink him; and in so far as he does not after-drink according to the regulations, he may be mulct.
50. Each declaration can then only be accepted, when the declarer has drunk out all his contracted quantities, and all scandals in which he has been engaged have been fought out.
51. He who in the commencement of a kneip declares that he is unwell, is for the evening declared, but he cannot during that evening take back his declaration.
52. If a declarer appears before the Beer-convention as a complainant, he must bring two witnesses.
53. The declaration is removed:--
(1) Through fore or after drinking of any quantity, even should the declarer use the proviso, "without prejudice to my declaration."
(2) By making a counter declaration.
(3) By the declarer mixing himself in beer-suits.
54. They mix themselves in beer-suits, who--
(1) Demand or give the cerevis.
(2) Sit in a Beer-convention; witness, call a Beer-convention, or cause it to be called.
(3) Is an umpire, a second in a Beer-scandal, or drinks with him who is to be released from the bann.
(4) Who challenges in beer.
(5) Who engages himself with another à faire.