BOARDING-HOUSE

A boarding-house 1s not 1n common parlance, or in legal meaning, every private house where one or more boarders are kept occasionally only and upon special considerations. But it is a quasi public house, where boarders are generally and habitually kept, and which is held out and known as a place ol' entertainment ol' that kind. Oady v. McDowell, 1 Lans. (N. Y.) 486. A boarding-house is not an inn, the distinction being that a boarder is received into a house by a voluntary contract, whereas an innkeeper, in the absence of any reasonable or lawful excuse, is bound to receive a guest when he presents himself. 2 El. & BI. 144. The distinction between a boarding-house and an inn is that in a boarding-house the guest is under an expre contract, at a certain rate for a certain period of time, while in an'. inn there is no expre agreement; the guest, being on his way, is entertained from day to day, according to his busine , upon an implied contract. Willard v. Reinhardt, 2 El. D. -Smith (N. Y.) 148. [s. 146]