Resolve

V. To decide; to determine; to bring to a termination. Resolution, also resolve, n.: a formal decision or determination of a question, particularly one made at a public meeting.

In this sense, resolution is used much oftener than resolve. In the practice of congress and of parliament, some matters of a kind not appropriate to be embodied in acts — such as a vote of thanks, a declaration of mere opinion, a consent — are framed in what are called resolutions; or, in congress, if the concurrence of both houses is necessary, joint resolutions. Resolutory condition. A condition included in a contract which is of such a nature that, if it should take effect, it will annul or determine — i.e. resolve — the principal obligation, is called, in the civil law, a resolutory condition. The condition of an ordinary penal bond seems to be a fair illustration; because if the obligor pays the money or does the act named in the condition, the principal contract — the engagement to pay the penal sum — is annulled and, discharged.