Restaurant
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An eating house. Lewis v. Hitchcock, 10 Fed. 6. See Inn; Innkeeper.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
This term, as currently understood, means only or chiefly, an eating-house; but it has no such fixed and definite legal meaning as necessarily to exclude its being an "inn" in the legal sense, Lewis v. Hitchcock (D. C.) 10 Fed. 4.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Has no such definite legal meaning as necessarily excludes its being an inn; as currently understood, an eating-house,! q. V. See also Entebtainmext; Inn; Saloon; Tavern.