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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
See Guild. GILDA MERCATORIA (L. Lat).
A mercantile meeting
If the king once grants to a set of men to have gilda mercatoria, mercantile meeting assembly, this is alone sufficient to incorporate and establish them forever.
1 Bla. Com. 473.
A company of merchants incorporated. Stat. Will. Reg. Scot. c.
35; Leg. Burgorum Scot, c. 99; Spelman, Gloss.; 8 Co. 125 o; 2 Ld. Raym. 1134.
They were widely spread trade organizations which appeared in England soon after the Conquest They supervised trade and labor, prices, hours of labor, etc., and punished dishonest workmanship and short weights not probable (though maintained by certain writers) that the grant of gilda mercatoria to a borough was a grant of corporateness.
See Carr, 3 Sel. Essays, Anglo-Amer. Leg. Hist. 177.
See Guild.
See Guild.