Guildhall
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The hall or place of meeting of a guéid, or gild. The place of meeting of a municipal corporation.
3 Steph. Comm. 173, note.
The mercantils or commercial gild/s of the Saxons are supposea to have given rise to the present municipal ccrporations of England, whose place of meeting is still called the “Guildhall.”