INN 



INN 



Most of the acids or saline solutions, be- 

 ing diluted, and used to write with, be- 

 come visible by heating befbre the fire, 

 which concentrates them, and assists their 

 action on the paper. 5. Diluted prussiate 

 of potash affords blue letters, when wet- 

 ted with the solution of sulphate of iron. 

 6. The solution of cobalt in aqua-regia, 

 when diluted, affords an ink which be- 

 comes green when held to the fire, but 

 disappears again when suffered to cool. 

 This has been used in fanciful drawings 

 of trees, the green leaves of which ap- 

 pear when warm, and vanish again by 

 cold. This effect has not been explain- 

 ed. If the heat be continued too long af- 

 ter the letters appear, it renders them 

 permanent. 7. If oxide of cobalt be dis- 

 solved in .acetous acid, and a little nitre 

 added, the solution will exhibit a pale 

 rose colour when heated, which disap- 

 pears on cooling. 8. A solution of equal 

 parts of sulphate of copper and muriate 

 of ammonia gives a yellow colour when 

 heated, that disappears when cold. 



Sympathetic inks have been proposed 

 as the instruments of secret correspond- 

 ence. But they are of little use in this 

 respect, because the properties change 

 by a few days remaining on the paper; 

 most of them have more or less of a tinge 

 when thoroughly dry; and none of them 

 resist the test of heating the paper till it 

 begins to be scorched. 



INNS and innkeepers. If one who 

 keeps a common inn refuse either to re- 

 ceive a traveller as a guest into his house, 

 or to find him victuals or lodging, upon 

 his tendering a reasonable price for them, 

 he is not only liable to render the da- 

 mages for the injury in an action on the 

 case, at the suit of the party grieved, but 

 also may be indicted and fined at the suit 

 of the king. In return for such respon- 

 sibility, the law allows him to retain the 

 horse of his guest until paid for his 

 keep ; but he cannot retain such horse 

 for the bill of the owner, although he 

 may retain his goods for such bill ; neither 

 can he detain one horse for the food of 

 another. An innkeeper, however, is not 

 bound to receive the horse, unless the 

 master lodge there also. Neither is a 

 landlord bound to furnish provisions, un- 

 less paid beforehand. If an innkeeper 

 make out unreasonable bills, he may be 

 indicted for extortion ; and if either he 

 or any of his servants knowingly sell bad 

 wine, or bad provisions, they will be re- 

 sponsible in an action of deceit. Keep- 

 ing an inn is not a trading to make a man 

 a bankrupt ; but where an innkeeper is a 

 chapman also, and buys and sells, he may 



on that account be a bankrupt. Innkeep- 

 ers are clearly chargeable for the goods 

 of guests stolen or lost out of their inns, 

 and this without any contract or agree- 

 ment for that purpose. But if a person 

 come to an innkeeper, and desire to be 

 entertained by him, winch the innkeeper 

 refuses, because, in fact, his house is al- 

 ready full ; whereupon the party says he 

 will shift among the rest of his guests, 

 and there he is robbed, the host shall not 

 be charged. If a man come to a common 

 inn to harbour, and desire that his horse 

 may be put to grass, and the host put him 

 to grass accordingly, and the horse is sto- 

 len, the host shall not be charged ; be- 

 cause by law the host is not bound to an- 

 swer for any thing out of liis inn, but on- 

 ly for those things that are infra hospitium. 

 Innkeepers may detain the person of the 

 guest who eats till payment. By the cus- 

 tom of London and Exeter, if a man ':om, 

 mit an horse to an hostler, and he cat out 

 the price of his head, the hostler may 

 take him as his own, upon the reasonable 

 appraisement of four of his neighbours; 

 yet he cannot justify the taking him to 

 himself at the price it was appraised at. 



INNATE ideas, those supposed to be 

 stamped on the mind from the first mo- 

 ment of its existence, and which it con- 

 stantly brings into the world with it : a 

 doctrine which Mr. Locke has abundant- 

 ly refuted. See IDEA. 



INNOMINATA ossa, in anatomy, three 

 bones, which compose the extreme part 

 of the trunk of a human body. 



INNUENDO, is a word used in decla- 

 rations and law pleadings, to ascertain a 

 person or thing which was named before ; 

 as to say he ( innuendo the plaintiff) did 

 so and so, when there was mention before 

 of another person. Innuendo may serve 

 for an explanation, where there is prece- 

 dent matter, but never for anew charge ; 

 it may apply what is already expressed^ 

 but cannot add or enlarge the importance 

 of it. The doctrine of innuendoes is 

 strangely misunderstood, in the opinion 

 of the writer of this article, and has been 

 confounded by too much learning and 

 technical distinction beiog applied to it. 

 The meaning of the word is limiting, 

 suggesting, or meaning.' All words have 

 different meanings, according to the man- 

 ner, time, and other circumstances, under 

 which they are used. If the words are 

 used in their plain sense, they need no 

 explanation ; if in any other sense, then 

 all the circumstances by which that sense 

 is to be made out to be the meaning of 

 the party must be stated, and then the 

 pleader may suggest the true meaning in 



