Legal Certainty of General will Deeds with the Object of Inheritance being the Content of the E-Mail Account

Law is a cultural product. In its position as a cultural product, law should go hand in hand with developments that occur in people's lives. However, the reality is often not like that. This can be seen in the regulations related to the inheritance of assets available in electronic form, namely the content of an e-mail account. An e-mail account is a means many people use to carry out activities in the digital world, one of which is commerce, so the content in an e-mail account may have economic value. When an e-mail account user dies, the content should be transferred to the user's heirs. However, the ITE Law does not regulate content inheritance in e-mail accounts. In addition, the provisions required by the custodian become obstacles for heirs to access the testator's content. Inheritance of a testamentary through a general will should be able to be a solution to this issue. Still, considering the legal vacuum in the ITE Law, this will raise questions regarding the legal certainty of a general will with the object of inheritance being the content of an e-mail account. This normative legal research uses three legal approaches, namely, the statutory, conceptual, and comparative legal approaches. This study concludes that a general will deed with the object of inheritance being the content of an e-mail account meets legal certainty. The legal basis for the general will deed is the ITE Law and the Civil Code. The ITE Law relates to assets available in electronic form. The Civil Code relates to testamentary inheritance through a general will deed.