Social host

Definition - Noun
: a person who furnishes another with alcohol in a social setting and not as a licensed vendor <courts...reluctant to impose liability on social hosts based on...negligence principles alone, without the support of express legislative policy ­Ferreira v. Strack, 652 A.2d 965 (1995)>
Social hosts have sometimes been found criminally liable for serving alcohol to a minor or to an already usu. obviously intoxicated person, and have sometimes been found civilly liable for injury to or by an intoxicated minor. Less often, a person categorized as a social host has been found civilly liable for subsequent injury to a third party caused by an intoxicated adult guest, esp. in an automobile accident.



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