The Law of Inns, Hotels and Boarding Houses: A Treatise Upon the Relation of Host and Guest

Front Cover
Williamson & Higbie, 1888 - Boardinghouses - 271 pages

From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 44 - Every officer or agent of any such company, who shall neglect to make any proper entry in such book, or shall refuse or neglect to exhibit the same, or allow the same to be inspected, and extracts to be taken therefrom...
Page 41 - Xo person holding stock in any such company, as executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, and no person holding such stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company...
Page 77 - ... made in whole or in part from animal fats or animal or vegetable oils not produced from unadulterated milk or cream...
Page 204 - Any person who shall be guilty of violating any provision of the last section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine not less than fifty dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Page 42 - ... shall be liable in like manner and to the same extent as the testator, or intestate, or the ward, or person interested in such fund would have been if he had been living and competent to act, and held the stock in his own name.
Page 53 - States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement ; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Page 44 - Such book shall be presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated, in favor of the plaintiff, in any suit or proceeding against such company, or against any one or more stockholders.
Page 206 - The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York ; the American Seamen's Friend Society, in New York ; the New York Board of Underwriters ; the Marine Society of New York ; the Society for Promoting the Gospel among Seamen in the Port of New York ; and the Shipowners' Association of the State of New York.
Page 49 - Innkeepers and carriers refusing to receive guests and passengers. — A person who, either on his own account or as agent or officer of a corporation, carries on business as innkeeper, or as common carrier of passengers, and refuses, without just cause or excuse, to receive and entertain any guest, or to receive and carry any passenger, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 43 - ... and showing their places of residence, the number of shares of stock held by them, respectively, and the time when they, respectively, became the owners of such shares...

Bibliographic information