Translation Los actos y negocios jurídicos se rigen por la ley a que las partes se hubieren sometido, salvo que dicho sometimiento sea contrario a leyes prohibitivas expresas o al orden público.
Original Juridicial acts and transactions are governed by the law, under which the parties have subordinated the contract, unless this choice of law is expressly contradictory to a legal prohibition or the ordre public.
Translated into English from the German translation of Jan Kleinheisterkamp contained in Kropholler, Außereuropäische IPR- Gesetze, Hamburg 1999
1Decreto 2-89, 18.3.1989; Leyes de Guatemala, Jiménez & Ayala Editores 1997