The Laws of Innkeepers For Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Clubs / John E.H. Sherry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherry, John E.H., Creator.

Seaquist, Gwen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hotels--Law and legislation.

Hotels.

Hotels--Law and legislation--United States--Cases.

United States.

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

3rd ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

London : Cornell University Press, 1993

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Here is the new, completely updated and expanded edition of the indispensable handbook used throughout the hospitality industry since The Laws of Innkeepers first appeared in 1972. Containing all the legal information essential to the successful operation of modern hotels, motels, inns, bed-and-breakfasts, clubs, restaurants, and resorts, the book has been extensively revised by John E. H. Sherry to accomodate the far-reaching changes that have occured since the publication of the revised edition in 1981.Sherry, a practicing lawyer and professor of hotel administration, carries over from the highly praised earlier editions detailed information on the rights and responsibilities of host and guest alike. He cites actual cases-ranging from the amusing and the bizarre to the tragic-as examples, and spells out in precise and readily understandable terms exactly what state and federal law says.Broadening the scope of the book to keep up with recent legal developments, the author includes many new case decisions and sumamries from various jurisdictions. Three chapters devoted to employment law, environmental law and land use, and catastrophic risk liability are among the highlights of the new material. These new sections present recent rulings and case law on such timely topics as age, disability, and AIDS discrimination, as well as sexual harassment; government regulation of toxic and hazardous substances and hotel and resort development; and acts of God and the Public Enemy and terrorism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE LAWS OF INNKEEPERS: RESPONSIBILITIES TO GUESTS AND PATRONS

Chapter 1. Historical Development of the Business of Innkeeping

Chapter 2. The Nature and Definition of an Inn and Other Places of Public Accommodation

Chapter 3. The Innkeeper's Public Duty at Common Law

Chapter 4. Discrimination in Places of Public Accommodation: Civil Rights

Chapter 5. Relationship of Innkeeper and Guest: Creation and Termination

Chapter 6. Legal Excuses for Failure to Receive a Guest and Right to Eject

Chapter 7. Liability for Failure to Honor Reservations

Chapter 8. Innkeeper's Duty to Guest: Courteous and Considerate Treatment

PART II. TORT LAW: OWNER AND OPERATOR LIABILITY FOR GUEST'S SAFETY

Chapter 9. Duty to Provide Safe Premises

Chapter 10. Liability of Resort Facilities

Chapter 11. Responsibility for Conduct of Persons in the Inn

PART III. INNKEEPER'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROPERTY OF GUESTS AND PATRONS

Chapter 12. Innkeeper's Responsibility for Property of Guests

Chapter 13. Exceptions and Limitations to Liability for Guest's Property

Chapter 14. Innkeeper's Duty to Nonguests

Chapter 15. Responsibility of Restaurant Keeper for Patron's Property

PART IV. GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Chapter 16. Civil and Criminal Responsibility for Anticompetitive Marketing Activities

Chapter 17. Franchise Agreements: Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Franchisor and Franc

Chapter 18. Regulation Governing the Sale of Food, Beverages, and Intoxicants

Chapter 19. Responsibility Arising from the Sale of Food, Beverages, and Intoxicants

PART V. INNKEEPER CREDITOR-DEBTOR PROTECTION

Chapter 20. The Innkeeper's Lien

Chapter 21. Compensation of the Innkeeper

Chapter 22. Crimes against Innkeepers

PART VI. INNKEEPER'S RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Chapter 23. International Aspects of Innkeeper-Guest Liability

PART VII. SELECTED HOSPITALITY-RELATED LEGAL CONCERNS

Chapter 24. Employment Law

Chapter 25. Environmental Law and Land Use

Chapter 26. Catastrophic Risk Liability

Law Review Articles

Table of Cases

Index

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The laws of innkeepers / John H. Sherry. Rev. ed. 1981.

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ISBN:

9781501718205

1501718207

OCLC:

1083621869