Adulterine Guilds
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Companies of traders acting as corporations, without charters, and paying a fine annually for the privilege of exercising their usurped privities. Smith, Wealth of Nations, bk.
1, c. 10; Wharton.