A guardian, warden, or keeper. Spelman. … [Read more...]

A voluntary association of persons pursuing the same trade, art, profession, or business, such as printers, goldsmiths, wool merchants, etc., united under a distinct organization of their own, analogous to that of a corporation, regulating the affairs of their trade or business by their own laws and rules, and aiming, by cooperation and organization, to protect and promote the … [Read more...]

In Spanish law. A written authorization to a court to enforce the performance of an agreement in the same manner as If it had been decreed upon regular legal proceedings. … [Read more...]

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild. The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. The mercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed to have given rise to the present municipal corporations of England, whose place of meeting is still called the "Guildhall." Guildhall sittings. The sittings held in the Guildhall of the city … [Read more...]

In old European law. A provision of necessary things. Spelman. A furnishing or garnishment … [Read more...]