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A group of quirky stock characters gather to solve the family tontine, a riddle revealing the location of the family fortune in the spooky Leduc family mansion in dreary England.
She then invested her savings in "sou-sou" (a form of community banking similar to our 'kuttu' or tontine) and in two years saved enough to buy a one-way ticket to the United States.
The tontine is a scheme for raising money on a long-term basis by weighting rewards in favour of the longest lasting contributors.— Propeller Most Popular Stories
They work, I am told, with a kind of tontine--it is, in fact, a lottery.— As We Are and As We May Be
Formerly the majority of policies paid "deferred" dividends after 5, 10, or 20 years, according to various tontine and semi-tontine plans, the survivors to these periods receiving their dividends plus those of the other policyholders who had died or had withdrawn from the company.— Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II

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