Cushing, Manual of Parliamentary Practice, § 296

6. A formal determination or decision of a legislative or corporate body, or of any a ociation of individuals, when adopted by vote. See by - law, 2, ordinance, 7, regulation, 2.-7. Determination of a cause, as in a court of justice. [Rare.] Nor have we all the acts of parliament or of judicial resolutions which might occasion such alterations. Sir M. Hale . 8t. The state of being settled in opinion; freedom from doubt; conviction; certainty. Ah, but the resolution of thy death Made me to lose such thought. Heywood, Four Prentices.