Self-Executing legal definition of Self-Executing. Self-Executing synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

Anything (e.g., a document or legislation) that is effective immediately without the need of intervening court action, ancillary legislation, or other type of implementing action.

A constitutional provision is self-executing when it can be given effect without the aid of legislation, and there is nothing to indicate that legislation is intended to make it operative. For example, a constitutional provision that any municipality by vote of four-sevenths of its qualified electors may issue and sell revenue bonds in order to pay for the cost of purchasing a municipally owned public utility is self-executing and effective without a legislative enactment.

Constitutional provisions are not self-executing if they merely set forth a line of policy or principles without supplying the means by which they are to be effectuated, or if the language of the constitution is directed to the legislature. As a result, a constitutional provision that the legislature shall direct by law in what manner and in what court suits may be brought against the state is not self-executing.

Just as with constitutional provisions, statutes and court judgments can be self-executing.

self-executing adj. immediately effective without further action, legislation or legal steps. Some statutes are self-executing, as are some legal rights (such as when a person holds property as security, title may pass automatically when payments are not made). Most judgments in lawsuits are not self-executing and are only documents giving the winning party the right to try to collect.

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"The Civil Rights Cases" Letters patent provision Self-Executing Treaty supplement	Self-executing treaties can be directly enforced by American courts; non-self-executing treaties require implementing legislation before a court can act. New world playpen: the United Nations' parental power grab by Farris, Michael P. / The American Conservative Third, treaties are often not self-executing under U. The constitutional power to interpret international law by Paulsen, Michael Stokes / Yale Law Journal 46) He did not join the majority opinion, however, because he thought that the case was much closer than the majority allowed, specifically with respect to the default executory status of treaties, and because he was convinced that the Vienna Convention was self-executing and was itself judicially enforceable in domestic courts. Treaties, execution, and originalism in Medellin v. Texas by Geslison, Ben / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy	self-counsel self-criticism Self-Dealing Self-defence Self-Defense self-denial self-denouncing self-denunciatory self-derived power self-determination self-determined self-determined being self-directing self-direction self-discipline self-disciplined self-doubt self-effacing self-esteem self-esteeming self-evident self-evident proposition self-evident truth self-exaltation self-examination Self-Executing Self-Executing Treaty self-existent self-explanatory self-flattering self-glorifying self-governed self-governing self-government Self-Help self-importance self-important self-imposed task Self-Incrimination self-inspection self-knowledge self-lauding self-legislation self-magnifying self-mastery self-possession self-praising self-regulation self-reliance self-reliant self-reproach	Self-estimation self-evaluation self-evaluations self-evidence self-evidence self-evident self-evident Self-evident proposition Self-evident proposition self-evident truth self-evident truth self-evidently self-evidently Self-evolution Self-exaltation Self-exaltation Self-examinant self-examination self-examination self-examination self-examining Self-Excitation of Generators Self-Excitation of Oscillations Self-excite self-excited self-excited self-excited oscillator self-excited vibration Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive self-exculpatory Self-Executing Self-Executing Treaty self-exile self-exile self-exile self-exiled Self-existence Self-existent Self-existent Self-Expanding Vascular Occluder self-explaining self-explanatory self-explanatory Self-exposure self-express self-expression Self-Expression and Leadership Program self-expressive Self-Extensible Language self-extinguishing Self-extracting archive Self-Extracting Archive Utility Self-extracting archives Self-extracting exe Self-extracting file Self-extraction Self-extraction Self-extraction Self-extraction Self-extractor self-faced stone

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"The Civil Rights Cases"
Letters patent
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Self-Executing Treaty
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Self-executing treaties can be directly enforced by American courts; non-self-executing treaties require implementing legislation before a court can act.

New world playpen: the United Nations' parental power grab by Farris, Michael P. / The American Conservative

Third, treaties are often not self-executing under U.

The constitutional power to interpret international law by Paulsen, Michael Stokes / Yale Law Journal

46) He did not join the majority opinion, however, because he thought that the case was much closer than the majority allowed, specifically with respect to the default executory status of treaties, and because he was convinced that the Vienna Convention was self-executing and was itself judicially enforceable in domestic courts.

Treaties, execution, and originalism in Medellin v. Texas by Geslison, Ben / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

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