Suits not to abate is defined under Section 7 of Societies Registration Act 1860
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 or proceeding shall be continued in the name of or against the successor of such person.
SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT 1860
Section 1 - Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration
Section 2 - Memorandum of association
Section 3 - Registration and fees
Section 4 - Annual list of managing body to be filed
Section 5 - Property of society how vested
Section 6 - Suits by and against societies
Section 7 - Suits not to abate
Section 8 - Enforcement of judgment against society
Section 9 - Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
Section 10 - Members liable to be sued as strangers
Section 11 - Members guilty of offences punishable as strangers
Section 12 - Societies enabled to alter, extend, or abridge their purposes
Section 13 - Provision for dissolution of societies and adjustment of their affairs
Section 14 - Upon a dissolution no member to receive profit
Section 16 - Governing body defined
Section 17 - Registration of societies formed before Act
Section 18 - Such societies to file memorandum, etc., with Registrar of Joint-stock Companies