Boarding-House
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A boarding-house is not in common parianco or in legal meaning, every private house where one or more boarders are kept occasionally only and upon special considerations. But it is a quasi public house, where boarders are generally and habitually kept, and which is held out and known as a place of entertainment of that kind.
Cody v. McDowell, 1 Lane, (N. Y.) 486.
A boarding-house is not an inn, the distinction being that a boarder is received into a house by a voluntary contract, whereas an innkeeper, in the absence of any reasonable or lawful excuse, is bound to receive a guest when be presents himself.
2 El. & Bl. 144.
The distinction between a boarding-house and an inn is that in a boarding-house the guest is under an express contract, at a certain rate for a certain period of time, while in an inn there is no express agreement; the guest, being on his way, is entertained from day to day, according to his business, upon an implied contract.
Willard v. Reinhardt, 2 E. D. Smith (N. Y.) 148.