Meaning of Mulct | Babel Free

Definitions

A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.

Equivalents

Examples

“juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice.”

“[…]by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.”

“The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist.”

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