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Restaurant

This term, as current-ly understood, means only, or chiefly, an eat-ing-house; but it has no such fixed and defi-nlte legal meaning as necessarily to exclude its beiug an “inn” in the legal sense. Lewis v. Hitchcock (D. C.) 10 Fed. 4

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)