Significado De La Fe Pública En La Prueba Por Medio De Documentos Públicos

Abstract

This paper contains an explanation of public trust as an element of public documentary evidence, which can be characterized by the presence of a group of legal provisions that regulate the elaboration process of documents in order to guarantee their authenticity. We understand public trust as a legal institution that seeks to give certainty in trading and that acts in the evidentiary field through legal valuation rules. Based on the aforementioned regarding evidence in civil proceedings, we conclude that a distinction must be made between two kinds of public documents: those that are provided of public trust and those that are a result of the exercise of public functions. Considering the higher guarantees that surround the elaboration process of documents that are provided with public trust, we contend that these must have more probative value than those documents elaborated as a consequence of the exercise of public functions.