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Hospes

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

(Lat.) In civil and old English law. A guest.

8 Co. 32, Calye's case.

A host or entertainer. Calv. Lex. More commonly hoepitator. HOSPITATOR (Lat.) A host or entertainer. Hospitator communis, an innkeeper.

8 Coke, 32.

Hospitator magnus, the marshal of a camp.