The following excerpt is from Goncalves v. Regent Intern. Hotels, Ltd., 447 N.E.2d 693, 460 N.Y.S.2d 750, 58 N.Y.2d 206 (N.Y. 1983):
These agreements, however, would not serve to limit the liability of the hotels in the circumstances of these cases. As contracts of exoneration, rather than of indemnity, they would not serve to exculpate the hotels for liability for their own negligence in the absence of an explicit reference to exoneration for such liability. (Gross v. Sweet, 49 N.Y.2d 102, 424 N.Y.S.2d 365, 400 N.E.2d 306.)
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