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Mutual debts, money due on both sides between two persons.-See SET-OFF; and as to mutual credits, debts, or other mutual dealings between a debtor afterwards becoming bankrupt and a person proving a debt against him, see s.31 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, and Eberle's Hotel Co. v. Jonas, (1887) 18 QB 459.