IL VALORE GIURIDICO DEL DOCUMENTO INFORMATICO

The increasing use of digital instruments, computers and, above all, of the internet, has completely revolutioned our ways of expression and communication. Our whole legal System, though, was meant far thè tradìtìonal ways of communication and documentation, which were oral speech and written paper. Therefore, there is nowadays the problem for jurists to establish which is the appliable legal provision when the instruments employed work through digital technologies. This work moves away from thè concept of writing and, going through the traditional categories of written deed and written evìdence, it intends to throw a light on what presently is the legal value of informatic documents, distinguishing, within it, different types of documents, according to theìr content, to the associated type of signature, or to the eventual intervention of a functionary. The comparison between traditional documentation techniques and modern informatic techniques allowed also the emergence of a type of writing that has been so far neglected, which is the mere written form.