An agreement to let upon hire binds the letter to secure to the hirer the quiet possession of the thing hired during the term of the hiring, against all persons lawfully claiming the same.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1927
Hiring in General
Applied in 24 court decisions — leading case 171 Cal. App. 4th 1004 - Spinks v. Equity Residential Briarwood Apartments (2009)
Most recently applied in 233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 537 - Multani v. Knight (May 2018)
Enacted 1872.
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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.