mulct

The company’s grip on the live ticketing market and its habit of mulcting concertgoers with junk fees have existed for decades, long predating its merger with Live Nation.

Time Warner figured it could mulct the other pay-TV companies for every last dime because, really, what TV service would dare not carry the Dodgers, whatever the price?

“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”

Any contravention of the edict shall entail a mulct of one hundred marks, one half payable to the fisc and one half to the party injured.

The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed.