self-executing adjective2 •Needing no legislation to enforce it.The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […] — 2003 •Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some additional tool to read it.The other commonly used method is a self-executing package where the installer and the update are bundled into a single executable. — 2007
