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self-executing definition - legal

adj

That which takes effect without further action, as with a statute or court order. 

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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