Gild Hall
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
See "Guildhall." GILDA MERCATORIA (Law Lat.) A mercantile meeting. If the king once grants to a set of men to have gildam mercatoriam, a mercantile meeting or assembly, this is alone sufficient to incorporate and establish them forever.
1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 473, 474.
A company of merchants incorporated. St. Wm. Reg. Scot. c.
35; Leg. Burg. Scot. c. 99; Du Cange; Spelman; 8 Coke, 125a; 2 Ld. Raym. 1134.