To transfer one's obligations from a person to another person.
To consent to the transfer of one's obligations as tenant under a lease to a new landlord.
To acknowledge the jurisdiction of (a particular court) over one's dispute.
To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc..
Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.