PRIVATE DOCUMENTS AS EVIDENCE AND ITS ASSESSMENT ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL ORGANIC CODE OF PROCESSES

The evaluation of private documents as evidence raises an active panorama in the role of judges, since this implies different perspectives in the critical exposition that guides the principle of free evaluation of the evidence. The subject of the evaluation of the evidence in private documents, frequently, presents relevant points in the rationalization of the trials, being that the evidence has in a certain part, with numerous problems that characterize its evaluation with relevant points and certain peculiarities given its own perspective of being deprived. The objective of private documents is to prove what is alleged by the parties, taking into consideration their veracity, through the appropriate mechanisms such as their materialization or certification, in case the documents have original signatures, their recognition must be done. before the competent authority. The principal objective of this work is: to argue the importance of private documents as evidence in judicial processes, in civil matters; for which the qualitative methodological approach will be used, through scientific methods such as historical-logical, analytical-synthetic and inductive. © 2023, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.