Inn
a house where travelers are furnished, for the profit of the provider, with everything they have occasion for while on their journey. Innkeepers are bound to take in all travelers and wayfaring persons, and to entertain them if they have accommodation for them and are bound to give to such accommodation at reasonable charges, provided they behave themselves properly. As a protection they have a lien on the goods of their lodgers (with the exception of the clothing which they are actually wearing), so that they may retain them as security.
Inns of Chancery, colleges in England in which young students formerly began their law studies. They are now occupied chiefly by attorneys and solicitors. Inns of Court, colleges or corporate societies in London, to one of which all barristers and students for the bar must belong; also the buildings belonging to such societies in which the members of the inn dine together, and barristers have their chambers. There are four such inns-viz.: the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Gray's Inn, and Lincoln's Inn.