Boarding House
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A quasi public house where boarders are habitually kept, and which is held out and known as a place of entertainment of that kind. 1 Lans. (N. Y.) 484, 486; 3 Abb. Pr. (N. S.; N. Y.) 26. The characteristic of a boarding house is that accommodation is furnished for a definite period. 24 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 62.,BOC (Saxon). A writing; a book. Used These 6oc8 were destroyed by William the Conqueror. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 22; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 17, 21.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.