The Student-Life of Germany

by William Howitt

TITULUS VIII.

OF THE BEER PENALTIES.

I. SIMPLE.

(a) OF THE BEER-BANN.

110. The Beer-bann is that punishment by which the beer-honourable student, while he is be-thundered to four choppins, loses all his beer-rights in the Special Kneip in which he stands inscribed.

111. The Beer-bann, besides the loss of all beer-rights, has also this consequence, that the be-thundered, neither mediately nor immediately, can bring his beer to the table where the Beer-honourable kneip. Should he do this, every beer-honourable is at liberty to throw the beer of the be-thundered upon the ground.

112. The beer-banned appellant, indeed, equally forfeits all beer-rights, yet can he bring his beer to the table where the beer-honourables kneip, and he may not be called a beerschisser, or beer-banished-man, and can for and after drink with any beer-honourable that he can engage to do so.

113. But on account of such quantity either for or after drunken, a Beer-convention cannot be called by either party.

114. No beer-honourable is allowed to either fore or after drink with a beer-banned man; does any one this, he goes into beer-banishment.

115. A beer-banished man can never be called before a Beer-convention and be be-thundered on account of a fact which renders him liable to beer-banishment, but only on one which renders him liable to pay a viertel. He then renders himself liable to a viertel when he calls a beer-honourable, or a beer-banned appellant, a beerschisser.

116. If any one perpetrates an act against a beerschisser, which renders him liable to a setting forth of a viertel, the beerschisser can call this person before the Beer-convention, but he must do it through a beer-honourable Beer-bursch, and lay his complaint through the same, strengthening also his accusation by two beer-honourable cerevises.

117. A term of eight days is appointed to the beerschisser (the beer-banned) from the day of his be-thundering, during which time he must cause himself to be fought-out in the following manner. If he exceeds this term, and that without special grounds of excuse, as sickness or absence, he is be-thundered in two viertels; which penalty, from eight days to eight days, if he does not fight himself out, is doubled.

118. The fighting cutis in this manner. The beerschisser, who will fight himself out, requests a beer-honourable Beer-bursch to call his name out in the kneip on whose beer-tablet he stands inscribed; but this can only be done in the presence of three beer-honourable Beer-burschen. The out-fighter must at every one of the four choppins, three times slowly and formally demand who will drink them with the beerschisser. The fighter-out is not an umpire. If any one is not satisfied with the proceedings of the fighter-out, this last must name an umpire.

119. The beerschisser must from five minutes to five minutes drink each of the choppins.

120. If any one announces that he will drink a choppin with the beerschisser, this person must name an umpire, who must make the weapons equal, and who, as in a Beer-scandal, has to command.

Each one to be fought-out has at least two choppins to drink.

If two out of the whole four choppins are not yet accepted the fighter-out has to drink out the remaining quantity with the to-be-fought-out person, in the regular time, and in the presence of an umpire.

121. He who, as umpire, has commanded during the last choppin which the beerschisser, as such, drinks, must immediately proclaim him three times loudly and formally in the kneip as beer-honourable.

In case the beerschisser has already drunk two choppins, and no one announces himself for the fourth, the fighter-out has this duty to perform.

The order must, at the same time, be given, and where it is possible, to a Fox, to wipe the beerschisser from the beer-tablet.

If the umpire proclaims the out-to-be-fought as beer-honourable too early, or too late, he himself goes into beer-banishment.

122. Both parties must drink at once, on the word of command. If the beerschisser does this not, he is be-thundered to a viertel; if the other, who, according to the declaration of the fighter-out, has to drink with the beerschisser, drinks not at the same time, he goes into beer-banishment.

123. If the beerschisser does not drink, after the command is given, his choppin in the five minutes, he continues a beerschisser, and the choppin not drunken by him is written on the beer-tablet in addition.

124. In all these cases the commanding umpire has the right to pronounce the penalty on the defaulters, without further proceeding, and cause them to be written on the beer-tablet, nor can he for this be called to account.

125. If one has been be-thundered on account of an unperformed quantity of fore or after drinking, he must drink the quantity still due, from five minutes to five minutes, after he has again been declared beer-honourable.

126. This must be done before those whom he has to drink after; or, should they be absent, before two beer-honourable witnesses.

127. The beerschisser has all the choppins that have been drunken with him during the fighting-out by the out-fighters immediately to pay for.

128. If the beerschisser has requested any one to call on him to be fought-out, he cannot again revoke the call; if he does this, he is mulct in a viertel.

129. The beerschisser has the right, during the pawking, or fighting-out, to have the beer necessary for the out-pawking upon the table at which the beer-honourables kneip.

130. Only one beerschisser can be pawked-out at one time.

131. He goes into beer-banishment--

(1) Who gives a false cerevis.

(2) Who offends against § 34.

(3) Who permits a beer-touche, or provocation, to stand against him beyond the regular time, and neither challenges, fixes the time, nor fights out, without having any sufficient ground of excuse to give. The sufficient grounds are--

(a) Older scandals, but not fore or after drinking quantities.

(b) If he has received no beer, spite of its having been immediately ordered, after challenge or fixing of the time has taken place.

(4) Who has declared a beerschisser, either by word or deed, to be beer-honourable. This happens through--

(a) He who contracts a scandal or fights one out with a beerschisser, and kneips with him in beer; that is,

(a) He who fore or after drinks with a beerschisser. (§ 114).

(b) He who has his beer standing on the same table with that of a beerschisser.

(c) He who plays with a beerschisser at a beer-play.

(d) He who with the beerschisser pours out of the same vessel, or drinks with him out of the same glass.

(b) He who "catches out"[^[52]] a beerschisser in the kneip, where the same stands inscribed as beerschisser on the beer-tablet.

(c) He who calls a Beer-convention upon a case against a beerschisser, which does not render him liable to a penalty of a viertel. (§ 115).

(d) He who submits to the same a beer-case for decision, or calls him as witness.

(e) He who too early proclaims the fought-out, beer-honourable. (§ 121).

(5) He who too late declares the fought-out, beer-honourable. (§ 121).

(6) He who calls a beer-honourable, or a beer-banned-appellant, a beerschisser.

(7) He who does not set out the appointed quantity within eight days.

(8) He who in pawking-out a beerschisser commands on a bad choppin.

(9) He who ought to drink with a beerschisser in his out-fighting, and does not drink at the right time, or drink at all.

(10) He who makes a quantity common; that is, fore or after drinks a quantity with a third person also, which he ought to drink with one only.

(11) The umpire whose decision before a Beer-convention is declared to be unjust (§ 62).

(12) The second who has to make the weapons equal, but who, according to the decision of a called-up umpire, has unjustly declared them to be equal.

(f) He who declares the decision of an umpire to be unjust without being able to show that it is so.

(13) Intruding witness. (§ 62).

(14) He who does not call a Beer-convention on account of a fact which is directed against himself, and which is punishable with beer-banishment.

(15) He who does not within five minutes drink the quantity dictated to him by the President of the Beer-convention. (§ 146).

(B.) OF SETTING FORTH BEER.

§ 132. Every viertel to be set out (that is, four measures, four jugs, or five bottles) is written down on the beer-tablet, and must within eight days, be set before a Beer-convention. He who exceeds this term, goes into beer-banishment. The Beer-convention which has be-thundered him, has at the same time to give the order that he and this quantity be wiped off the beer-tablet, and that he be written down anew under this date.

133. The Beer-convention, and he who sets it out, have equally participation in this beer, and should the setter-out be a Fox, he too, who called the Beer-convention for him; but the Beer-convention can, if it please, make this quantity over to the General company.

134. A viertel must set-out--

(1) The Fox who touches, or provokes a beer-bursch to a challenge in beer, or in a beer-challenge doubles on him. (§ 23.)

(2) The Fox who has called a Beer-convention, or sits in one. (§ 64.)

(3) The Fox who becomes an Umpire. (§ 64.)

(4) The Fox who touches the beer-cudgel of the President in a Beer-commers.

(5) Every one who, being called on to second, refuses without sufficient ground. (§ 36.)

(6) He who offends against § 37.

(7) He who offends against §§ 42 and 43.

(8) He who touches in beer a Declarer, and does not immediately revoke the touche. (§ 48.)

(9) A Declarer who touches another who has not declared. (§ 48.)

(10) He who refuses without justifiable ground to act as umpire. (§ 48.)

(11) He who cribs beer in drinking, or spills the beer of another, or fouls it.

(12) He who forgets his Smollis.[^[53]]

(13) He who touches an Umpire, knowing him to be such.

(14) He who insults or calumniates a Beer-convention.

(15) He who declares the decision of a Beer-convention to be unjust; but this shall not include the appeal to a General.

(16) The Beer-judge who offends against § 34.

(17) He who declares that he will appeal to a General, and yet does it not on the proper day. (§ 103.)

(18) He who has declared that he would appeal to a General, but makes this later than five minutes after his declaration. (§ 104.)

(19) The beerschisser who sits in Beer-convention, or at all acts in beer-suits.

(20) The beerschisser who, after he has allowed himself to be called upon to be fought-out, revokes. (§ 128.)

(21) The beerschisser who in the fighting-out does not drink in time. (§ 122.)

(22) The beerschisser, who calls a beer-honourable or beer-banned-Appellant, a Beerschisser. (§ 115.)

(23) He who alters or writes down any thing on the beer-tablet, or expunges any thing, without the right to do it (§ 136.)

(24) He who writes down, by his own fault, the name of the be-thundered, or of the accuser-appellant, wrong. (§ 139.)

(25) The be-thundered or accuser-appellant who purposely spells his name wrong to the writer-down. (§ 139.)

(26) He who, indeed, writes down the name of the be-thundered, or of the accuser-appellant on the tablet correctly, but who states a false date or a false quantity.

(27) He who does not convey the commission of writing down or expunging within five minutes.

(28) Every one whose duty it is to write down or expunge from the tablet, and does not do this within five minutes.

(29) He who gives to another without due authority, an order to alter, or to write down upon, or to expunge any thing from the tablet. (§ 138.)

(30) He who does not call a Beer-convent upon a fact which renders liable to the setting-forth of a viertel.

(31) When one is caught-out--that is, if he lifts the lid of a covered glass (and jugs and bottles are also included) in which so much beer yet remains as will cover the bottom, so far that another can insinuate his hand between the vessel and the lid, and thereupon cry "caught-out;" or when one is caught-out who covers an empty glass, though this latter person is under no necessity to cover the empty glass again.

(32) He who catches out without cause--that is, he who catches one out, who in the lifting of his lid has said--"without catching-out;" or who, while the beer is pouring puts his hand between; or who makes an erroneous catching-out with an empty glass.

(33) He who speaks ill of any of the Faculties.

II. SHARPER BEER PENALTIES.

§ 135. The sharper beer-penalty is, when any one is be-thundered at the same time to more than one viertel, or to beer-banishment and beer-setting-forth.

(a) HE IS CONDEMNED TO MORE THAN ONE VIERTEL,

(1) Who offends against § 44.

(2) The accuser who, going before the General, fails to make good his accusation, and is mulct in two viertels. (§ 108).

(3) The Beerschisser, who does not cause himself to be fought-out within the proper period, falls under the penalty of § 117.

(b) THEY ARE CONDEMNED TO BEER-BANISHMENT AND BEER SETTING-FORTH:

(1) False witnesses, (§ 81.)

(2) Those who disturb the proceedings of the Beer-convention for the fourth time, either by speaking, crying out, singing, or whispering to one another, after silence has been three times commanded. (§§ 87 and 106.)

(3) All those who act contrary to § 65.

(c) THEY ARE CONDEMNED TO THE SETTING OUT OF TWO VIERTELS AND TO
BEER-BANISHMENT.

(1) The Beer-judges whom the General Beer-convention reproves.

(2) He who abuses this Beer-comment, or alters any thing in it.