Tavern
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of strangers.
Webster.
Originally, a house for the retailing of liquors to be drunk on the spot Webster. A house licensed to sell liquors in small quantities.
In re Schneider, 11 Ore. 288, 8 Pac. 289.
In almost all the states the word has come to mean the same as inn, with no particular reference to the sale of liquors.
See 2 Kent 597*, note a; Foster v. State, 84 Ala. 451, 4 South. 833.
Tavern has been held to include •‘hotel”; St Louis v. Siegrist, 46 Mo. 593; contra, Bonner v. Welhorn, 7 Ga. 296. For the liability of tavern-keepers, see Story, Bailm. § 7. See Wandell, Inns; Beale, Innkeepers; Innkeeper.