What is BOARDING HOUSE ? Definition of BOARDING HOUSE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
A house where the business of keeping boarders generally is carried on, and which is held out by the owner or keeper as a place where boarders are kept; one for the accommodation of those who enter under contract for entertainment at a certain rate for a certain period of time, as for a week or month, at a rate of compensation agreed on; a house kept principally for the residence of permanent boarders. Singelakis v. Davidson, 117 N.J.L. 332, 188 A. 443, 444. A sort of public house, partaking in some degree of the character of an inn or restaurant. Baddour City of Long Beach, 279 N.Y. 167, 18 N.E.2d 18, 21, 124 A.L.R. 1003. A quasi public house, where boarders are generally and habitually kept, and which is held out and known as a place of entertainment of that kind. Cady v. McDowell, 1 Lans., N.Y. 486; Friedrich Music House v. Harris, 200 Mich. 421, 166 N.W. 869, L.R.A.1918D, 400.
A house occupied for carrying on the business of keeping boarders, although while prosecuting the business and as a means of prosecuting it, the occupant and his wife and children live in the house. Trainor v. Le Beck, 101 N.J.Eq. 823, 139 A. 16, 17. A boarding-house and an inn or hotel differs in, that in a boarding-house the guest is under an express contract, while in an inn there is no express agreement. Willard v. Reinhardt, 2 E. D. Smith, N. Y., 148; McIntosh v. Schops, 92 Or. 307, 180 P. 593. An innkeeper is also bound to receive a guest when he presents himself. 2 El. & Bl. 144; McClaugherty v. Cline, 128 Tenn. 605, 163 S.W. 801. A "boarding-house" is also less public in char-aracter. State v. Brown, 112 Kan. 814, 212 P. 663, 664, 31 A.L.R. 338. See, also, Talbott v. Southern Seminary, 131 Va. 576, 109 S.E. 440, 19 A.L.R. 534. A "rooming house" differs from a "boarding-house" only in that the latter furnishes meals. City of Independence v. Richardson, 117 Kan. 656, 232 P. 1044, 1046. A boarding school, however, is not a boarding-house within a lien statute. Talbott v. Southern Seminary, 131 Va. 576, 109 S.E. 440, 441, 19 A.L.R. 534.
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