Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

self-executing

adj. (Of an instrument) effective immediately without the need of any type of implementing action <the wills had self-executing affidavits attached>. ( Legal instruments may be self-executing according to various standards. For example, treaties are self-executing under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article VI, § 2) if textually capable of judicial enforcement and intended to be enforced in that manner.