The term "hiring" means a contract by which one person grants to another either the enjoyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry of himself during a certain time and for a stipulated compensation or by which one person contracts for the labor or services of another person with regard to a thing bailed to such other person for a specified purpose.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2056; Code 1868, § 2059; Code 1873, § 2085; Code 1882, § 2085; Civil Code 1895, § 2903; Civil Code 1910, § 3476; Code 1933, § 12-201.)
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- Bailment: effect of failure to reply to notice of rate at which goods then on premises may be left, 24 A.L.R. 968.
Character of contract to raise seed, 29 A.L.R. 647.
Character of contract for use of chattels with agreement for replacements, 38 A.L.R. 175.