# Rule 23 Courts without side walls (The Sun Four-Wall Rules, 1889, historical)

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

In case there are only boundary lines drawn, and no side walls, if the ball after striking the front wall rebounds outside the side boundary line, such ball is foul, and 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/23.md)

## Relationships

- Front wall relates to Ball: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Hand-out: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Wall: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Hand-out: mentioned together in 7 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Wall: mentioned together in 9 sub-rules.
- Hand-out relates to Wall: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- No link to the other terms shown: Side wall.
- 4 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.

Rulebook: [The Sun Four-Wall Rules, 1889](https://handball.theperfectship.com/rulebooks/sun-fourwall-1889.md)

Source: "Following are the set rules of the game", in 'All About Handball', The Sun (New York), 17 March 1889, p. 7 (Chronicling America, sn83030272); reprinted in the Wichita Daily Eagle, 9 April 1889, p. 3 (sn85032490). Public domain.