Contracts, agreements, guarantees, conveyances, deeds, leases, licences, and other instruments, undertakings, and notices (whether in writing or not), entered into by, made with, given to or by, or addressed to the society (whether alone or with another person) before the registration of the company and subsisting immediately before registration are binding on, enforceable by, against, or in favour of the company, as if the company and not the society had been the person by whom they were entered into, with whom they were made, or to or by whom they were given or addressed.