Legal Definition and Related Resources of Inn
Meaning of Inn
A public house in which food, lodging and other accommodations are offered to guests or travellers for compensation. Although at common law , an inn was a place where travellers would be furnished food, lodging and entertainment, food is no longer an essential service and all that is required is that the place be commonly known as a hotel and be engaged in the business of providing customary hotel services to transients. See Kraus v Birns, 241 N. Y.S.2d 189, 39 Misc.2d562.
Inn Alternative Definition
A house where a traveller is furnished with everything he has occasion for while on his way. Bac. Abr. “Inns” (B) ; 12 Mod. 255; 3 Barn. & Aid. 283; 4 Camp. 77; 2 Chit. Bailm. 484; 9 B. Mon. (Ky.) 72; 3 Chit. Comm. Law, 365, note 6. A public house of entertainment for all who choose to visit it. 5 Sandf. (N. Y.) 247.
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Inn
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Old English inn “lodging, dwelling, house,” probably from inne (adverb) “inside, within” (see in). Meaning “public house with lodging” is perhaps by c. 1200, certainly by c. 1400. Meaning “lodging house or residence for students” is attested from early 13c. in Anglo-Latin, now obsolete except in names of buildings that were so used (such as Inns of Court, mid-15c.).
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