Gild

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

See "Guild."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Same as Geld; also one of the many English mutual benefit societies.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

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.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Saxon law. A tax or tribute. Spelman. A fine, mulct, or amerciament; a satisfaction or compensation for an injury. A fraternity, society, or company of persens combined together, under certain regulations, and with the king's license, and so called because its expenses were defrayed by the contributions (geld, gild) of its members. Spelman. In other words, a corporation; called, In Latin, "societas," "collegium," "fratria," "fraternitas," "sodalitium," "adu-natio;" and, in foreign law, "gildonia." Spelman. There were various kinds of these gilds, as merchant or commercial gilds, religious gilds, and others. 3 Turn. Anglo Sax. 98; 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note u. See Gilda Mercatoria. A friborg, or deconnary; called, by the Saxons, "gyldscipes," and its members, "gil-dones" and "congildones." Spelman.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

guild, ^eld, sax. In Saxon law. or amerciament; a society, or gether, under certain regulations, so called because its expenses were its members; a f riborg, or decennary.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

sax. v. Oeld. Also, a fraternity; Gilda mercatoria, /.: a mercantile

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

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.