lodger

An occupant who has mere use without actual or exclusive possession. Roberts v. Casey, 36 Cal. App.2d, Supp. 767, 93 P.2d 654, 657, 658, 659; Coggins v. Gregorio, C.C.A.N.M., 97 F.2d 948, 951.

Person who rents a furnished room or rooms. Lodger has been defined as a tenant of part of another's house, one who for time being has his home at his lodging place, one who has leave to inhabit another man's house, one who inhabits portion of a house of which another has general possession and custody, one who lives at board or in a hired room or who has a bed in another's house, one who lives in a hired room or rooms in house of another, one who occupies hired apartments in another's house. The term is also defined as a person who lives and sleeps in a place, a person whose occupancy is a part of a house and subordinate to and in some degree under the control of a landlord or his representative. The term is used to indicate a personal relationship of some one lodging somewhere with somebody. Marden v. Radford, 229 Mo.App. 789, 84 S.W.2d 947, 955, 957, 959