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[jcocks]

when a group of friends all decide to leave their assest to each other, and the last person alive gets the lot, what is this called?

[Ginbottle]

Inheritance.

[jcocks]

inheritance is not the answer i was looking for

[Quizmonster]

A tontine is what it is called.

[incitatus]

It is indeed a tontine. Or in some interpretations it can be called an Honourable Company. Im not sure that they are still legal. They were very popular amongst Victorian advenbturers but got a very bad name, being , basically, an incitement to murder.

[firefly]

It features in the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Wrong Box'.

[triksta]

It also features in an episode of The Simpsons

[badpig]

lucky