Resolution

:Noun.

1.The act or process of unraveling or disentangling perplexities, or of dissipating obscurity in moral subjects; as the resolution of difficult questions in moral science.

2.Determination of a cause in a court of justice; as a judicial resolution. [But this word is now seldom used to express the decision of a judicial tribunal. We use judgment, decision or decree.]

3. The determination or decision of a legislative body, or a formal proposition offered for legislative determination. We call that a resolution, which is reduced to form and offered to a legislative house for consideration, and we call it a resolution when adopted. We say, a member moved certain resolutions; the house proceeded to consider the resolutions offered; they adopted or rejected the resolutions. An expression of will or intent; a specified remedy to solve a problem not rising to the level of law. The solution to a problem.