Definition of self-executing in English:
self-executing
adjective sɛlfˈɛksɪkjuːtɪŋ
1Operating or occurring automatically.
a self-executing program that doesn't use too much memory
Example sentencesExamples
- You can burn self-executing CDs with multiple albums.
- At the end of that seven-year period a self-executing destruction policy may be implemented as long as audit documentation that needs to be retained for a longer period is protected.
- We are also producing some "self-executing" programs that are in HTML format.
- This is the whole book in HTML self-executing form.
- Even the most self-evident moral principles are generally not self-executing.
Synonyms
mechanized, mechanical, automated, push-button, preprogrammed, computerized, electronic, robotic, unmanned
- 1.1Law (of a law or legal clause) not needing legislation to be enforced; automatic.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Dutch Constitution generally gives pre-eminence to the self-executing norms of international treaties.
- In the United States criminal laws cannot be self-executing.
- He noted that in the 1950s, the Department of Justice took the position that the Geneva Conventions are self-executing.
- Internet works are specifically further protected under the 2002 World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty, which is self-executing.
- Community laws and regulations are made by the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, and the European Court of Justice declares which laws are self-executing.
- The Court seemed to conflate two different notions, that of political acts immune from judicial review, and that of self-executing international obligations.
- These provisions, drafted by the National Federation of the Blind, are not self-executing.
- Many treaties are not self-executing, which means that in the absence of a congressional statute creating such a right, no American citizen can sue to enforce such treaties.