"bind over" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "binds over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "binding over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bound over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bound over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bind<,,bound> over"
      },
      "expansion": "bind over (third-person singular simple present binds over, present participle binding over, simple past and past participle bound over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (over)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 48",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act."
      ],
      "id": "en-bind_over-en-verb-SPlWlmi6",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "compel",
          "compel"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bind over"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "binds over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "binding over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bound over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bound over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bind<,,bound> over"
      },
      "expansion": "bind over (third-person singular simple present binds over, present participle binding over, simple past and past participle bound over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (over)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 48",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "compel",
          "compel"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) To compel someone to do, or abstain from, a particular act."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bind over"
}