Gild

Guild, Geld. Sax. [from geldan, or gyldan, to pay; L. Lat. gilda, gildum.'\ In Saxon law. A tax or tribute. Spelman, voc. Getdum. Camd. Brit. 135, 139, 159. <&c. See Geld. Hence gildable, taxable. A fine, mulct, or amerciament; a satisfaction or compensation for an injury. Crompton Jurisd. 191. Spelman, voc. Gel' dum. See Wergild, Orfg Ud, Angild, (fee. A fraternity, society, or company of persons combined together, under certain regulations, and with the king's license, and so called because its expenses were defrayed by the contributions, {geld, gild. Sax. a payment,) of its members, {quod ex conjectis pecuniis sodcditii impendio subministratur.) Spelman, ub. sup.

Termes de la ley

In other words, a corporation; called in Latin societas, collegium, fratria, fratemitas, sodalitium^ adunatio; and in foreign law, gildonia. Spelman, ub. sup. There were various kinds of these gilds, as merchant, or commercial gilds, religious gilds, and others.

3 Turner's Hist. Anglo Sax. 98. Z'Steph. Com. 173, note (u).

See Giida Mercatoria. A friborg, or decennary; called by the Saxons gyldscipes, and its members gildones, and congildones. Spelman, ub. sup.