GUES

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  GUEST. A traveller who stays at an inn or tavern-with the consent of the 
  keeper: Bac. Ab. Inns, C 5; 8 Co. 32. And if, after having taken lodgings at 
  an inn, he leaves his horse there, and goes elsewhere to lodge, he is still 
  to be considered a guest. But not if he merely leaves goods for which the 
  landlord receives no compensation. 1 Salk. 888; 2 Lord Raym. 866; Cro. Jac. 
  188. The length of time a man is at an inn makes no difference, whether he 


  stays a day, or a week, or a month, or longer, so always, that, though not 
  strictly transient, he retains his character as a traveller. But if a person 
  comes upon a special contract to board and sojourn at an inn, he is not in 
  the sense of the law a guest, but a boarder. Bac. Ab. Inns, C. 5; Story, 
  Bailm. Sec. 477. 
       2. Innkeepers are generally liable for all goods belonging to the guest, 
  brought within the inn. It is not necessary that the goods should have been 
  in the special keeping of the innkeeper to male him liable. This rule is 
  founded on principles of public utility, to which all private considerations 
  ought to yield. 2 Kent, Com. 459; 1 Hayw. N. C. Rep. 40; 14 John. R. 175; 
  Dig. 4, 9, 1. Vide 8 Barb. & Ald. 283; 4 Maule & Selw. 306; 1 Holt's N. P. 
  209; 1 Salk. 387; S. C. Carth. 417; 1 Bell's Com. 469 Dane's Ab. Index, h. 
  t.; Yelv. 67, a; Smith's Leading Cases, 47; 8 Co. 32.