Definition of SERVANT • Law Dictionary • TheLaw.com

A servant is one who is employed to render personal services to his employer, otherwise than in the pursuit of an Independent calling, and who in such service remains entirely under the control and direction of the latter, who hi called his master. Civ. Code Cal.

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