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Definition of Innkeepers
1. innkeeper [n] - See also: innkeeper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Innkeepers
Literary usage of Innkeepers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Francis Stafford Pipe Wolferstan, James M. Dudley, Edwin Baylies (1876)
"Negligence and breach of duty on the part of common innkeepers and lodging-house
keepers.—Who may be said to be a common innkeeper— Loss of goods by common ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"CHAPTER XXXI CONTRACTS OF BAILMENT AND OF innkeepers Definition of bailment 1032
Kinds of bailment 1033 Mutual rights and duties of bailor and bailee 1034 ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story (1840)
"who are deemed innkeepers in the sense of that law ; (2. ... Who are deemed
innkeepers. An innkeeper may be defined to be the keeper of a common inn for the ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"(/) * But innkeepers form an exception to the general rule, and they are held
responsible to as strict and severe an extent as common carriers ; and the ..."
5. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1860)
"1787 innkeepers' j COM: thought it unnecessary to put the country to tho ...
It ought to be styled a Bill for the protection of innkeepers. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Inn-keepers, and Pledge by James Schouler (1880)
"Who are innkeepers ? The older cases have been wont to define an inn as a public
house for lodging and entertaining travellers while on their way ..."
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