Section 7-1-782. Effect of conversion into savings and loan association

   Upon the conversion of any building and loan association into a savings and loan association, the corporate existence of such association shall not terminate, but such savings and loan association shall be deemed to be a continuation of the entity of the building and loan association so converted. All property of the converted building and loan association, including its rights, titles, and interests in and to all property of whatsoever kind, whether real, personal, or mixed, and choses in action and every right, privilege, interest, and assets of any conceivable value or benefit then existing or pertaining to it or which inure to it, shall immediately, by act of law and without any conveyance or transfer and without any further act or deed, remain and be vested in and continue to be the property of such savings and loan association into which the building and loan association has converted itself; and such savings and loan association shall have, hold, and enjoy the same in its own right as fully and to the same extent as the same was possessed, held, and enjoyed by the converting building and loan association. Such savings and loan association, as of the time of the taking effect of such conversion, shall continue to have and succeed to all of the rights, obligations, and relations of the converting building and loan association. All pending actions and other judicial proceedings to which the converting building and loan association is a party shall not be deemed to have abated or to have discontinued by reason of such conversion but may be prosecuted to final judgment, order, or decree in the same manner as if such conversion had not been made; and such savings and loan association resulting from such conversion may continue such action in its corporation name; and any judgment, order, or decree may be rendered for or against the converting building and loan association theretofore involved in such judicial proceedings.

Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 307, § 12; Code 1933, § 41A-3513, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.