Communidade of Tivim vs. State of Goa 2025 INSC 835 -Code of Comunidades
Code of Comunidades- Art. 30 (4) (g) of the Code merely empowers a Communidade to deliberate upon terms of compromise, which upon finalisation, has to be forwarded to the Administrative Tribunal. This does not mean that it confers an unfettered power on the Communidade to enter into a compromise, without the Tribunal’s sanction. (Para 20)
Case Info
Case Name and Neutral Citation
- Case Name: Communidade of Tivim, Tivim, Bardez Goa v. State of Goa & Ors.
- Neutral Citation: 2025 INSC 835
Coram (Judges)
- Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia
- Justice K. Vinod Chandran
Judgment Date: July 14, 2025
Statutes/Laws Referred
- Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 (referred to as “Tenancy Act, 1964”)
- Section 7 (Declaration of Tenancy)
- Section 9 (Modes of Termination of Tenancy)
- Section 10 (Surrender of Tenancy)
- Section 11 (Termination by Landlord)
- Chapter IIA (Special rights and privileges of tenants)
- Section 18A (Deemed purchase by tenant)
- Section 18C (Procedure for purchase)
- Section 18D (Purchase price)
- Section 18K (Restriction on transfer by tenant)
- Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991 (referred to as “Land Use Act”)
- Section 2 (Regulation of use of land)
- Code of Comunidades
- Article 154(3) (Permission for compromise by Administrative Tribunal)
- Article 30(4)(g) (Power to deliberate on compromise)

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