All suits which have by acts of the Legislature been heretofore abated shall continue so abated. All rights of action and causes of action which the state, or any officer for the use of the state may have had, where by act of the Legislature such right has been abrogated and the authority and right to bring suit thereon denied, such right shall continue so abrogated and such right and authority to bring suit thereon and therefor shall continue to be denied.