Public house

A house kept for the entertainment of all who come lawfully and pay regularly. Com. v. Cuncannon, 3 Brewst. (Pa.) 344. It does not include a boarding-house; id.; hut under a statute, a store-house in the country is included in this term; Huffman v. State, 29 Ala. 40; and a barber shop; Moore v. State, 30 id. 550; and a broker’s office; Wilson v. State, 31 id. 371. A room to which persons generally are permitted to resort, to play cards, though not every one has access to it, is a public gambling-house. See many cases collected in 22 Alb. L. J. 24, and Abb. Die. In England it applied to a licensed place where liquor is sold. The keeper of a pub-

An inn or tavern; a house for the entertainment of the public, or for the entertainment of all Who come lawfully and pay reguiarly. 3 Brewst 344. A place of public resort, particularly for purposes of drinking or gaming.

In a more general sense, any house made public by the occupation carried on in it and the implied invitation to the public to enter, such as inns, taverns, drinking saloons, gambling houses, and perhaps also shops and stores. See Cole v. State, 28 Tex. App. 536, 13 S. W. 859, 19 Am. St. Rep. 856; State v. Barns, 25 Tex. 655 ; Arnold v. State, 29 Ain. 50; Lafferty v. State, 41 Tex. Cr. It. 606, 56 S. W. 623; Bentley v. State, 32 Ala. 599; Brown v. State, 27 Ala..50.
Defined under House in Black's Law Dictionary.