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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Resolutive, adj. [ME and e.m.E. resolutif having the power to dissolve (c1400), in legal use (a1623), med. L. resolutiv-, whence also F. résolutif (1484 in Larousse).] That provides for the extinction or nullification of an agreement if certain conditions specified in it are contravened. — 1681 Stair Inst. iv xviii § 3.
Clauses irritant … are also called resolutive clauses because in these events they do resolve the rights wherein they are contained; and sometimes they bear that, in the cases therein mentioned, the rights shall thereby become null 1694 Fountainhall Decis. I 623.
The Lords were divided on the point. Some thought it not resolutive