bind over

Oblige someone to do or not do something; hold on bail or keep under bond. For example, The sheriff will bind over the murder suspect to the homicide division. This phrase is nearly always used in a legal context. [Late 1500s]

To order that a defendant be placed in custody pending the outcome of a proceeding (usually criminal) against him or her. The defendant may be released on bail or other conditions of release thereafter. See 124 N.W. 492, 493. When probable cause is found to exist at a preliminary hearing, the court will direct that the defendant be "bound over" for action by the grand jury [or for trial on a prosecutor's information].

The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: law: order a defendant to be placed in custody pending the outcome of a proceedings against him or her