Gilda mercatoria
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A mercantile company or corporation.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A gild merchant or merchant glld; a gild, corporation or company of merchants. 10 Coke, 30.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A friborg, or decennary; called, by the Saxons, “gyldscipes,” and its members, “ gidanes” and “eongildones.” Spelman.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Lat. A gild merchant, or merchant gild; a gild, corporation, or company of merchants. Beg. Orig. 219 b. 2 £d. Baym. 1134. 1 Spence's Chancery, 56. 8 Co. 125 a. If the king grants to a set of men to have gildam mercatoriam, this alone is sufficient to incorporate and establish them forever. 10 Co. 30. 1 BolL Abr. 513. 1 BL Com. 473, 474.