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Definition of Innkeeper
1. Noun. The owner or manager of an inn.
Specialized synonyms: Hostess, Padrone, Victualer, Victualler
Generic synonyms: Patron
Derivative terms: Host
Definition of Innkeeper
1. n. An innholder.
Definition of Innkeeper
1. Noun. The person responsible for the running of an inn, usually the proprietor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Innkeeper
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Innkeeper
Literary usage of Innkeeper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"innkeeper would be excused If the goods were lost without default on the part of
himself or his servant or as the result of accidental fire. ..."
2. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With a Second Volume by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1876)
"And where a person becomes a mere boarder at an inn, the innkeeper's peculiar
... An innkeeper is bound by the custom of the realm to receive travellers and ..."
3. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"Unless the relation of innkeeper and guest exist, the innkeeper is under no
liability as such. ... An innkeeper is not liable for the clothing of a boarder, ..."
4. The Law Summary: A Collection of Legal Tracts on Subjects of General by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1833)
"If the inn is full, and the innkeeper gives the traveller notice of it, and tells
him that he cannot be entertained there, if the traveller still chooses to ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Innkeeper. Public policy imposes upon fin innkeeper a heavy responsibility. ...
It is however a good defence to the innkeeper, that his guest's Toss was ..."
6. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"The Innkeeper. 'OR the common-law principles governing the liability of the
innkeeper it is not necessary to go further back than C ..."
7. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story (1846)
"An innkeeper is bound (as has been already said) to take in all travellers and
wayfaring persons, and to entertain them, if he can accommodate them, ..."
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