tontine - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • lose: He should lose the tontine, and with that the last hope of his seven thousand eight hundred pounds.

Modifies a noun

  • clause: Like the tontine clause this matrimonial regime allows the survivor of a married couple to inherit the whole of a French property.

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