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Clearly, in such a case, he simply assumes a risk and binds himself to pay to the other party a sum of money sufficient to compensate the latter for the non-fulfilment of the assurance.
Recognizance, in Anglo-American law, obligation entered into before a judge or magistrate whereby a party (the recognizor) binds himself to owe a sum of money in the event that he does not perform a stipulated act.
— A historical-political problem: how the individual binds himself to his truth and to the power that exerts itself upon him.
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Over the economic cycle, he has bound himself to meet the "golden rule" of borrowing only to invest.
I said that I wondered if Sharif would agree; he may well have thought that Zardari had, in fact, bound himself to act with dispatch.
"I don't have any confidence in the fact that he has not made a commitment that he would bind himself to the recommendations," he said.
Thus A, desiring to bind himself to give B $10,000, requests B to promise to give (or to give) A a peppercorn in exchange.
When inducted into the Heroes, a man bound himself to loyalty and secrecy "under no less penalty than to have my head shot through".
He chose to bind himself to the West in this war on terrorism, even though domestic critics viewed this as yet another case of Russia's following the leader.
In practical effect, a testator may thus bind himself to make and not to revoke a will favouring a person who has promised to take care of him in old age.
Ct. 441, 28 L. Ed. 64); and Massie expressly bound himself to pay, as a fee for such services, 'a sum equal to 50percentnt. of the amount which may be collected, said fee to be a lien on any warrant,' etc.
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