IV. Cannot be divided, _i.e._ a player cannot add one or two to his own
score, and deduct one or two from the revoking player;
V. Takes precedence of every other score--_e.g._, The claimants
two--their opponents nothing--the former add three to their score--and
thereby win a treble game, even should the latter have made thirteen
tricks, and held four honours.
76.--If a player who has become liable to have the highest or lowest of a
suit called, or to win or not to win a trick (when able to do so), fail to
play as desired, or if a player, when called on to lead one suit, lead
another, having in his hand one or more cards of that suit demanded, he
incurs the penalty of a revoke.
77.--A revoke is established, if the trick in which it occur be turned and
quitted, _i.e._, the hand removed from that trick after it has been turned
face downwards on the table--or if either the revoking player or his
partner, whether in his right turn or otherwise, lead or play to the
following trick. Throwing down the hand, or claiming game, constitute acts
of play within the meaning of leading or playing to the following trick.
78.--A player may ask his partner whether he has not a card of the suit
which he has renounced, or whether he has played as desired or demanded;
should the question be asked before the trick is turned and quitted,
subsequent turning and quitting by the adversaries does not establish the
revoke, and the error may be corrected, unless the question be answered in
the negative, or unless the revoking player or his partner have led or
played to the {181} following trick; but if the revoking player or his
partner has turned the trick before the question is answered, the revoke is
established.
79.--At the end of a hand, the claimants of a revoke may search all the
tricks.[62]
80.--If a player discover his error in time to save a revoke, the
adversaries, whenever they think fit, may call the card thus played in
error, or may require him to play his highest or lowest card to that trick
in which he has renounced;--any player or players who have played after him
may withdraw their cards and substitute others; the cards withdrawn are not
liable to be called.
81.--If a revoke be claimed, and the accused player or his partner, after
such claim has been made, mix the cards before they have been sufficiently
examined by the adversaries, the revoke is established. Prior to such
claim, the mixing of the cards renders the proof of a revoke difficult, but
does not prevent the claim, and possible establishment, of the penalty.
82.--A revoke cannot be claimed after the cards have been duly cut for the
following deal.
83.--The revoking player and his partner may under all circumstances,
require the hand in which the revoke has been detected to be played out.
84.--If a revoke occur, be claimed and proved, bets on the odd trick, or on
amount of score, must be decided by the actual state of the latter, after
the penalty is paid.
85.--Should the players on both sides subject themselves to the penalty of
one or more revokes, neither can win the game, and the revokes cancel each
other.
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86.--In whatever way the penalty be enforced, under no circumstances can a
player win the game by the result of the hand during which he has revoked;
he cannot score more than four.