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to impose legal obligations or duties upon a person or party to an agreement.

TO BIND, BINDING, contracts. These words are applied to the contract entered into, between a master and an apprentice the latter is said to be bound.
2. In order to make a good binding, the consent of the apprentice must be had, together with that of his father, next friend, or some one standing in loco parentis. Bac. Ab. Master and Servant, A; 8 John. 328; 2 Pen. 977; 2 Yerg. 546 1 Ashmead, 123; 10 Sergeant & Rawle, 416 1 Massachusetts, 172; 1 Vermont, 69. Whether a father has, by the common law, a right to bind out his child, during his minority without his consent, seems not to be settled. 2 Dall. 199; 7 Mass. 147; 1 Mason, 78; 1 Ashm. 267. Vide Apprentice; Father; Mother; Parent.
3. The words to bind or binding, are also used to signify that a thing is subject to an obligation, engagement or liability; as, the judgment binds such an estate. Vide Lien.

TO BIND, OR TO BIND OVER, crim. law. The act by which a magistrate or a court hold to bail a party, accused of a crime or misdemeanor.
2. A person accused may be bound over to appear at a court having jurisdiction of the offence charged, to answer; or he may be bound over to be of good behaviour, (q. v.) or to keep the peace. See Surety of the Peace.
3. On refusing to enter into the requisite recognizance, the accused may be committed to prison.

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'These three organisations took the initial risk in trying to establish the operation here, so deserve much of the credit; in addition, the private sector and our extremely committed patron, H H Sayyid Faisal bin Turki al Said, has played a pivotal role in our growth,' said Suleiman al Harthy, board chairman, Outward Bound Oman.

OUTWARD BOUND OMAN HOSTS WORLD CONFERENCE AS PART OF 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Medications that are highly bound and have high clearance rates may be affected.

Protein binding changes and drug interactions: What do we know?

Each line of the matrix M displays a microstates configuration through a sequence of zeroes in those positions where the sites of multidentate macromolecule are not occupied by a ligand, and with a sequence of ones in those positions where the sites are bound to the ligand.

The Evidence of Cooperative Binding of a Ligand to G4 DNA

Its advantage is that the method directly measures the heat signal associated with the binding process and thereby avoids the need to partition the free and bound ligands.

Study on the Interaction of Zinc Ion Binding with Human Serum Albumin using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry

The existence of the bound compels the agent to compare

Bounded institutions

Conversely, if G is k-regular, it is not difficult to check that [rho](G) attains the upper bound by direct calculation.

Bounds of the spectral radius and the Nordhaus-Gaddum type of the graphs

These are pretty expensive when compared with standard cardboard cover sets, a hardcover can cost between $4 and $6 each, but there's no dewing that documents and presentations that are bound in one of these hard-covers makes an impression.

The finishing touch: selecting the correct binders for your purposes

UEA- 1 bound to shellfish tissues, but only at high concentration (50 [micro]g/mL), whereas 2 other lectins, DBA and HPA, bound at a lower concentration (1 [micro]g/mL) (Table 3).

Norwalk virus--specific binding to oyster digestive tissues

What's more, our plan also provides all South Bound Brook residents with near-complete access to the canal for the first time in almost a century."

South Bound Brook set for mixed-use changes

The identification of the PSP binding protein has enabled Procyon scientists to develop new simple blood tests that specifically measure the free form of PSP94 (unbound to binding proteins) and the total form of PSP94 (bound and unbound to binding proteins) as well as the total PSP94 binding protein.

Procyon Biopharma's novel PSP94 binding protein

For example, a bound volume may need to be scanned using a book scanner with the appropriate cradle or by using a device for face-up scanning at an angle with a digital camera.

Digital imaging and conservation: model guidelines

78-197, the Service stated that it would treat the proceeds from a charitable contribution followed by a redemption of a donee's stock, under facts similar to Palmer, 62TC 684 (1974), as donor income if the donee is legally bound or can be compelled by the corporation to surrender the shares for redemption.

Transfer of stock warrants to charity was not an anticipatory assignment of income