Continuity is an essential feature of the ie. The individual members of a
particular house, who need not always be resident, occupy the roles of the
living members of that particular ie. The total membership includes all
those who went before: the ancestors, now forgotten as individuals, the
recently dead who are remembered; and the descendants as yet unborn It is the duty of the living members at any one time to remember their predecessors, and to ensure that the house will continue after they die