42. If during the play of a deal a pack be proven incorrect or imperfect, such proof renders only the current deal void, and does not affect any prior score. The dealer must deal again (Law 38 b).
43. Any one dealing with the adversaries’ cards must be corrected before the play of the first card, otherwise the deal stands good. If any one deals when it is the turn of an adversary, such error must be corrected before the cards are dealt for the following deal.
44. A player can neither shuffle, cut nor deal for his partner without the permission of his adversaries.
DECLARING TRUMPS
45. The trump is declared. No card is turned.
a The dealer may either make the trump or pass the declaration to his partner.
b If the declaration be passed to partner, he must make the trump.
46. Should the dealer’s partner make the trump without receiving permission from the dealer, the eldest hand may demand,
1st. That the trump shall stand, or
2d. That there shall be a new deal.
But if any declaration as to doubling, or not doubling, shall have been made, or if a new deal be not claimed, the declaration wrongly made shall stand. The eldest hand is the player on the left of the dealer.