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Mutual Will, a will is mutual when two testators confer upon each other reciprocal benefits, as by either of them constituting the other his legatee; that is to say, when the executants fill the roles of both testator and legatee towards each other. But where the legatess are distinct from the testators, there can be no question of a mutual will, Kochu Govidan Kaimal v. Thayankoot Thekkot, AIR 1959 SC 71 (75). (Succession Act, 1925, s. 74)