If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time. ( LEGAL )
On many occasions demonstrators were bound over to keep the peace...
They put us in a cell, and the next day some bumbling judge bound us over...
This imposes a duty on courts to bind over parents when they have no control over their children.
PHRASAL VERB : be V-ed P to-inf , V n P , V P n (not pron) , also V P n to-inf