law: Societies Registration Act, 1860
  7. Suits not to abate
  No suit or proceeding in any Civil Court shall
  
  abate or discontinue by reason of the person, by or against whom such suit or
  
  proceedings shall have been brought or continued, dying or ceasing to fill the
  
  character in the name whereof he shall have sued or been sued, but the same
  
  suit proceedings shall be continued in the name of or against the successor of
  
  such person.