# Rule 6 Serve striking a side wall (James's Four-Wall Rules, 1873, historical)

> **Historical rulebook: not the current rules.** The current rules are here: https://handball.theperfectship.com/rules/four-wall/

If the striker when serving the ball strikes either side wall before striking the front wall, it is a hand out.

## Mentioned here

- [Front wall](https://handball.theperfectship.com/front-wall.md)
- [Side wall](https://handball.theperfectship.com/side-wall.md)
- [Ball](https://handball.theperfectship.com/ball.md)
- [Hand-out](https://handball.theperfectship.com/hand-out.md)
- [Wall](https://handball.theperfectship.com/wall.md)

How this rule changed: [wording in every rulebook](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/clause-history/code-fourwall-american/7.md)

## Relationships

- Front wall relates to Side wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Ball: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Hand-out: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Wall: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Hand-out: mentioned together in 6 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Wall: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- 3 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.

Rulebook: [James's Four-Wall Rules, 1873](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/james-fourwall-1873.md)

Source: "Hand Ball Rules", in Ed. James, Manual of Sporting Rules (New York: Ed. James, 1873), pp. 76-77 (Library of Congress copy, Internet Archive manualofsporting00jame); reprinted with rewording in Henry Chadwick, The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys (New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1884), pp. 108-109 (Internet Archive sportsandpastim00chadgoog). Public domain.