GUILDHALL

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild. The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 8 Steph. Comm. 178, note. The mercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are su1,1posed to have given rise to the present municipal corporations of England, whose place of meeting 1s still called the "Guildhall." -Guildhall 1itting1. The sittings held in the Guildhall of the city of London for city of London cause& [s. 559]