bind over
verb1
Law To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act.
- In Middlesex, instead of being tried by jury, hundreds of suspected adulterers were instead bound over by magistrates – in other words, forced to end their alleged relationships, find respectable citizens to post bail for their good behviour, and appear in court to answer for their future conduct.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 48: