Re Bellencontre

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1891
CourtDivisional Court
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17 cases
  • Re Nielsen
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 12 April 1984
    ...of this practice. Its origin would appear to be not so much what was said as what was done in the two late 19th century cases of In re Bellencontre [1891] 2 Q.B. 122, and In re Arton (No.2) [1896] 1 Q.B. 509. Both were decisions of a Divisional Court in proceedings to discharge an order n......
  • R v Governor of Pentonville Prison, ex parte Budlong; R v Governor of Holloway Prison, ex parte Kember
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 November 1979
    ...the general description of the crime for which extradition is asked. The point is also covered by authority. In In re BellencontreELR [1891] 2 Q.B. 122, Cave J. said, at p. 136: ‘The duty of the Secretary of State is to call the attention of the police magistrate to what he is required to d......
  • Henry (Herbert) and Others v Commissioner of Corrections and DPP
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 4 July 2008
    ...such that the description of corresponding offences in the requesting and the requested state may not be the same, citing in support In re Bellencontre [1891] 2 Q.B. 123. 110 The evidence against this appellant is to be formed primarily in the first and second Young Duffis affidavits, the a......
  • Canada (Government of) v Aronson
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1989
    ...and not with that of the foreign state, even to the limited extent which might theretofore have been inferred from such cases as In re Bellencontre [1891] 2 Q.B. 122, In re Arton (No. 2) [1896] 1 Q.B. 509 and Ex parte Budlong. He pointed out, at p. 619 that "the crime of which he is accused......
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  • EMBEZZLEMENT
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition E
    • 6 February 2019
    ...embezzlement, Cave J, in the case of Re Bellencontre (1891) 2 Q.B. 122, 139 said: "Embezzlement does not mean the misappropriation by a clerk or servant is the only species of embezzlement to which the law actually gives that name, and so it is to be regarded as if that were the only subjec......

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