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The subject land belongs to the claimant/Communidade and, therefore, it is not a free-hold land. Under Article 153 of the Code of Communidades, the Governor General has the powers to authorize the exchange of lands of Communidades and determine its requests for grant of leases. Under Articles 179 and 180 (Chap. VII regarding insolvent Communidades), the lands belonging to Communidades can be sold only when in liquidation proceedings the assets are found to be inadequate. In short, the land belonging to Communidades could not be utilised for a purpose which will enhance its market value and the restrictions imposed on such land under the Code of Communidades clearly shows that its free use is not permissible. When the land under acquisition suffers statutory restrictions, the obvious consequences that follow is on its market value and, therefore, such land cannot be compared with other sale instances in respect of the free-hold land.