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.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1925
Hiring in General
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 17 Cal. 3d 86 - Culligan Water Conditioning of Bellflower, Inc. v. State Board of Equalization (1976)
Most recently applied in Lawrence v. Ace Am. Ins. Co. (June 2019)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.