Undertaking — Law Dictionary

United States Code

16 U.S.C. § 470W — as used in this subchapter

“Undertaking” means a project, activity, or program funded in whole or in part under the direct or indirect jurisdiction of a Federal agency, including—

(A) those carried out by or on behalf of the agency;

(B) those carried out with Federal financial assistance;

(C) those requiring a Federal permit license, or approval; and

(D) those subject to State or local regulation administered pursuant to a delegation or approval by a Federal agency.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A promise to do some act; a bond; a recognizance.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other: a promise. 5 East 17; 4 B. & Aid. 595, followed in Alexander v. State, 28 Tex. App. 186, 12 S. W. 595. It does not necessarily imply a consideration; Thompson v. Blanchard, 3 N. Y. 335. It is used of large financial and business transactions.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A promise, engagement or stipulation. Each of the promises made by the parties to a contract, considered independently and not as mutual, may, in this sense, be denominated an "undertaking." "Undertaking" is frequently used in the speclal sense of a promise given in the course of legal proceedings by a party or his counsel, generally as a condition to obtaining some concession from the court or the opposite party. Sweet.