The phrase "authority to bind" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or business contexts to refer to the power or right of an individual or entity to enter into agreements or contracts on behalf of another party.
Example: "The CEO has the authority to bind the company to contracts without further approval from the board."
Alternatives: "power to obligate" or "right to commit".
"This conference does not have the authority to bind," Father Keating said.
In any event, the secretary of the Commission was without authority to bind the Commission in the matter.
Robbed of ideological purpose or a central authority to bind it together, the government is falling to pieces.
Under the city's labor laws, District Council 37, as the largest municipal union, has the authority to bind most other civilian unions on benefits when it negotiates contracts.
Therefore, we hold that the governor lacked authority to bind the state to a compact that violates Florida law, as this compact does".
c. at 19 ("Agents who lack authority to bind their principals to contracts nevertheless often have authority to negotiate or to transmit or receive information on their behalf".).
Her lawsuit limiting the authority of employers to bind individuals to long-term contracts proved a body blow to the studio system.
(2) Evidence of authority of persons signing to bind the corporation.
The first and second (consecutive) Commissions of the CECL addressed formation, validity, interpretation and content of contracts, the authority of an agent to bind his principal, the performance of contractual obligations and remedies for non-performance.
In such cases, the decision of a competent authority to use IMI should be voluntary, but once that authority has submitted a request for information or cooperation through IMI, the requested competent authority should be bound to cooperate and to provide a response.
A recurring theme in his work is the figure of absolute authority, bound ultimately to be defied, to disintegrate, to become irrelevant – and yet without whom everything falls apart.
