The emergence of new media has made it possible not only to transfer traditional texts to digital space, but also given rise to the emergence of completely new phenomena together known as the "textuality of the third millennium” . It is worth noting that the textuality of the third millennium combines texts with technology as never before. This opened up the concept of the text to completely new interpretations. When trying to determine the impact of digitalisation on the concept of a legal text, it should be emphasized that this concept is one of the most controversial in legal theory and is usually associated with a specific approach to its interpretation. Lawyers and computer scientists are interested in the problem of a legal text as a system of interrelated texts that condition its content, meaning or normative status. This issue, however, remains outside the mainstream of linguistics and textual theory. Bearing in mind the concepts of a legal text that function in the theory and philosophy of law, such as the theses of R. Dworkin, it is important to acknowledge that a legal text does not have to have either a formal or conventionally distinguished beginning or end. It can be a multi-thematic in character, function on multiple levels and be constantly subject to change. Unlike the texts of specific legal acts, it does not require a linear structure that usually determines the direction of its reading. In other words, it is a spatial, dynamic and multi-threaded text, devoid of any clear framework, thus leaving open many parallel reading paths. As a result, it is the adopted rules for producing the texts of specific types of legal acts in conjunction with the directives of their interpretation that function in a given legal culture, which determine the acceptable types and methods of combining the information dispersed in them. The meaning and scope of the concept of a legal text functioning in a given interpretive culture determines the admissibility or possibility of using specific IT solutions. By means of IT tools such as mark-up languages, the traditional texts of legal acts can be transferred to cyberspace. As a result, depending on the type of tools used, the electronic version of a law can take the form of a basic hypertext or an adaptive hypertext. In the case of a simple hypertext, the text of a law would be a set of legal documents formally separated into separate nodes, and linked together by means of hyperlinks. However, in the case of adaptive hypertext, the text of the law would be transferred to the semantic web. Thanks to this approach, the "simple" hypertext of a law could be enriched by the addition of an information management system that would allow machines to "understand" the content of the information contained therein. The text of the law would then become a combination of texts written in a natural language with a computer system enabling interactive and automated management and processing of information contained in legal documents, regardless of its form. Producing legal texts in an electronic format opens up new ways of managing legal information. What significantly distinguishes the hypertextual form from traditional forms is, above all, its dynamic and interactive nature and the way information is presented and shared, which

enables the reader to organize it on a current basis. Hypertext differs from classic forms of text delivery not so much in the quantity and quality of the information available in it, but above all in the way it is recorded and shared, allowing for both multifaceted analysis and new forms of presentation.