Hotel - Indian Laws - General

Hotel As per Black s Law Dictionary , Fifth edition, Hotel means a building held out to the public as a place where all transient persons who come will be received and entertained as guests for compensation and it opens its facilities to the public as a whole rather than limited accessibility to a well-defined private group . As per the Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Hotel means an establishment or building providing a number of bed rooms, baths, etc., and usually food, for the accommodation of travellers, semi-permanent residents, etc. From these two dictionary meanings hotel means where in a building public will be entitled to enter and they would be received and entertained and avail of its facilities necessary for a decent life. It can be done only on payment of price. CIT VERSUS HOTEL BELLE VUE (PRIVATE) LIMITED - 1996 (9) TMI 109 - GAUHATI HIGH COURT The word hotel is explained in the Encyclopedia Britannica as Building that provides lodging, meals and other services to the travelling public on a commercial basis. As per Merriam Webster Online Dictionary An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travellers and other paying guests. Likewise, in Stroud s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases, An hotel is a place where lodgings are let and where provisions are, to some extent, supplied. CIT VERSUS SANGU CHAKRA HOTELS P. LIMITED. - 2006 (10) TMI 122 - MADRAS HIGH COURT