I shall take occasion to refer to this decision of the supreme court hereafter when I come to notice the passage by the legislature of the miserable subterfuge now known as the "mulct law.
Be it premised, that the reason assigned for this mulct of the acolytes is that by the proceeds thereof the washing of their surplices may be paid for.
Fret not with that impatient cough: if surlily inclined, The nearest station is the place at which redress to find; The magistrates have now the power to mulct thee of thy gold, Or send thee off to jail, my friend.
Two citizens contended for a mulct The price of blood.
Which penalty should Priam and his sons 345 Not pay, though Paris fall, then here in arms I will contend for payment of the mulct My due, till, satisfied, I close the war.
A fine of twenty lire was imposed on any one cognizant of heresy and not denouncing it; while the senator who neglected to enforce the law was subject to a mulct of two hundred marks and perpetual disability to office.
It is a devilish thing to do individual murder; but it is infinitely more devilish to so gouge and mulct as to help kill the chances of millions of fellow beings to bring up their broods as children have a right to be brought up.
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
It matters not how slight the offence may have been, it is discretionary with the special magistrate to mulct the apprentice of his Saturdays.
In the mulct of this seemingly general conspiracy to defraud the laborer of his wages by exorbitant rents, &c.
Asmund was with King Olaf when he heard of it; therefore there was nobody in Halogaland to sue Harek for mulct for this deed, nor did he offer any satisfaction.
No mulct was paid for Harek's house-servants, and the rock was declared to be Grankel's.
King Olaf awarded as great a penalty for Earl Einar's murder as for three lendermen; but as Einar himself was the cause of the act, one third of the mulctfell to the ground.
The bonde replies, "Should you not rather give this money for the soul-mulct of your own men?
The queen talked over the matter with him, and said, "Your son Hardaknut will pay the full mulct the king may demand, if he has done anything which is thought to be against the king.
But you must bestow a great amount of gifts and estates on this foundation, and thereby pay the mulctdue to God and to us for such transgression.
The king came the last into the harbour, and Magnus had let the murderer escape into the forest, and offered to pay the mulct for him; and the king had very nearly attacked Magnus and his crew, but their friends came up and reconciled them.
I will pay thee the mulct for the bloodshed on account of this man, so that he may retain life and limbs.
Fin offered to pay mulct for Thorberg, and also for Stein, and bade the king to fix what the penalties should be, however large; stipulating only for Thorberg safety and his fiefs, and for Stein life and limb.
Therefore ye ought to accept, with thanks, the friendship which the king offers you; and it would become you better if you offered money even in mulct to obtain it.
But the most dissuaded from this course, thinking that Sigurd would pay the mulctfor the slaughter done.
When Fin saw that they were most of them under sail, he ordered his men to get ready too; but as yet little more than a third part of the mulct had been paid.
If, without being able to do this, he declares, he must be mulct in a viertel.
In all the Chores they are bound to appear at the Kneipe, on certain days, and failing in this respect, are mulct in a pecuniary fine.
The accuser who, going before the General, fails to make good his accusation, and is mulct in two viertels.
If the beerschisser has requested any one to call on him to be fought-out, he cannot again revoke the call; if he does this, he is mulct in a viertel.
Confusion is easy, for if the slave be punished by death or mutilation, his master will suffer, and a pecuniary mulct exacted from the slave is exacted from his master.
And therefore was it decreed even in its Institution, That if any Knight-Companion should in publick be found without one buckled about his Leg, upon Challenge he should be mulct a Noble to the Dean and College of Windsor.
Years together, was Mulct forty Marks; and continuing his Contempt the next Year, was fined the Sum of eighty Marks.
And though the Assembly have right, to impose a Mulct upon any of their members, that shall break the Lawes they make; yet out of the Colonie it selfe, they have no right to execute the same.
The spoiling of the palace and Temple was rendered necessary to raise the vastmulct which the Assyrian King required.
The mulct to be paid to survivors for the sudden slaughter of a relative.
A mulct paid by one guilty of manslaughter, generally to the kindred of the person killed.
Sometimes also the penalty of violating a law, is some such mulct or service, which the ruler intendeth as a commutation for the duty, so that he freely leaveth it to the choice of the subject which he will choose.
No courts or commands can compel any to appear or submit, nor lay the mulct of a penny upon any, but by their own consent, or the magistrate's authority.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mulct" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
