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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-12-60. “Hiring” defined.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-12-60. “Hiring” defined.

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.

## History

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.