undertaking

A written promise offered as security for the performance of a particular act required in a legal action.

In a criminal case, an undertaking of bail is security for the appearance of the defendant. In the event the defendant fails to appear, the amount posted as bail is forfeited.

An undertaking with adequate security is a bond. The term is used in a general sense to refer to any type of promise or stipulation.

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undertaking (Attempt), noun design, effort, plan, purpose, quest, search, task undertaken, trial

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undertaking (Bond), noun pledge, security

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undertaking (Business), noun engagement, project, pursuit, task, transaction, venture

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undertaking (Commitment), noun agreement, obligation, pledge

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undertaking (Enterprise), noun adventure, affair, attempt, business, coeptum, concern, effort, emprise, engagement, essay, exercise, inceptum, job, move, occupation, operation, plan, program, project, pursuit, quest, search, task, trial, venture
Associated concepts: joint undertaking

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undertaking (Pledge), noun agreement, assurance, avowal, commitment, compact, contract, covenant, guarantee, insurance, oath, obligation, parole, pledged word, promise, security, stipulation, troth, vow, warrant, word
Associated concepts: bail undertaking, insufficiency of unnertaking, statutory undertaking, undertaking

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See also: activity, adoption, affair, agreement, appointment, assumption, bail, burden, business, calling, campaign, charge, commitment, contract, covenant, coverage, effort, endeavor, enterprise, expedient, indenture, industry, insurance, job, labor, livelihood, maneuver, mission, occupation, operation, part, plan, pledge, position, post, practice, proceeding, profession, project, prosecution, pursuit, responsibility, role, specialty, transaction, vow, work

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UNDERTAKING, contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other; a promise. 5 East, R. 17; 2 Leon. 224, 5; 4 B, & A. 595.