Related Party Transactions - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019	Mar. 31, 2018	Mar. 31, 2017
Wilmington Trust Company [Member]
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Indenture trustee fees	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
Standard fees and commissions	300,000	$ 300,000	$ 300,000
GUC Trust Monitor [Member]
Related Party Transaction [Line Items]
Professional Fees	$ 200,000

Indenture trustee fees.

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- Definition

Those fees charged for services related to holding, advising, and managing customer investment assets. These account fees usually charged annually or semi-annually, on a per security basis, for the costs of services.

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A fee charged for services from professionals such as doctors, lawyers and accountants. The term is often expanded to include other professions, for example, pharmacists charging to maintain a medicinal profile of a client or customer.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

+ References

No definition available.

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