Legal Dictionary
Main Entry:
social hostFunction:
noun : a person who furnishes another with alcohol in a social setting and not as a licensed vendor
social hosts based on…negligence principles alone, without the support of express legislative policy —Ferreira v. Strack, 652 Atlantic Reporter, Second Series 965 (1995)>
NOTE: Social hosts have sometimes been found criminally liable for serving alcohol to a minor or to an already usually 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.
