Hiring

Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the enjoyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his servant, during a certain time, for a stipulated coins pensation, or where one contracts for the labor or services of another about a thing Hiring is a contract by which one gives to another the temporary possession and use of property, other than money, for reward, and the latter agrees to return the same to the former at a future time.

Civil Code Cal, § 1925; Civil Code Dak. § 1103.