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For the appellants '(the Society) to succeed it is essential to show that this agreement created in them some present estate or interest which would prevent the Raja from having made the grant. That could only be effected by reading the compromise as creating in the Jains Society a grant in perpetuity of the Parasnath Hill. This cannot, however, be supported, because subject to the provisions of the agreement, the Raja is left in control of the hill, and the Raja has power from time to time to dispose of such portions as he thinks fit, and it would be impossible to challenge the right of any person who took under him unless it could be shown that the covenant upon which the appellants rely was a covenant which was in the Cireumstances enforceable, not merely against the Raja but against his assignees. Such a covenant as this does not, and cannot run with the land, and could not be so enforced. Further, if the case be regarded in another light namely an agreemeut to grant in future whatever land might be selected as a site for a temple as the only interest created would be one to take effect by entry at a later date, and as this date is uncertain the provision is obviously bad as offending the rule against perpetuities, for the interest would not then vest in presenti, but would vest at the expiration of an indefinite time which might extend beyond the expiration of the proper period.