Indiana Code Title 28. Financial Institutions § 28-3-2-6

Sec. 6. At the time when the merger or consolidation of a bank or trust company with or the conversion of a bank or trust company into a national banking association, or under such charter as may be issued thereafter, becomes effective, all of the property of such bank or trust company, including all of its rights, title and interest in and to any and all property of whatsoever kind, whether real, personal or mixed, and to things in action, and to every right, privilege, interest and asset of any value or benefit whatsoever, then existing, belonging or pertaining to it, or which would inure to it, shall, immediately, by act of law, and without any conveyance or transfer, and without any further act or deed, be vested in and become the property of such national banking association, which 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 such bank or trust company;  and such national banking association shall be deemed to be a continuation of the entity and of the identity of such bank or trust company, and all of the rights, obligations and relations of such bank or trust company to or in respect to any person, estate, creditor, depositor, trustee or beneficiary of any trust, and in, or in respect to, any executorship or trusteeship, or in any other trust or fiduciary capacity, or appointment thereto, shall remain unimpaired, and such national banking association, at the time of the taking effect of such merger, consolidation or conversion, shall succeed to all of such rights, obligations, relations, appointments, and trusts, and the duties and liabilities connected therewith, and shall execute and perform each and every such trust or relation in the same manner as though such national banking association had itself been appointed to and/or assumed such trust or relation, including the obligations and liabilities connected therewith.