BIND

To obligate; to bring or place under definite duties or legal obligations, particularly by a bond or covenant; to affeet one in a constraining or compulsory manner with a contract or a judgment. So "long as a contract, an adjudication, or a legal relation remains in force and virtue, and con• tinues to impose duties or obligations, it is said to be "binding." A. man is bound by his contract or promise, by a judgment or decree against him, by his bond or covenant, by an estoppel, etc. Stone v. Bradbury, 14 Me. 193; Holmes v. Tutton, 5 El. & BI. 80; Bank v. Ireland, 127 N. C. 238, 37 S. E. 223; Douglas v. Henne y, 11> R. I. 272, 10 A.tl. 583. · [s. 142]