EMBEZZLEMENT

• Date: 06 February 2019

"On 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 subject matter to which the term embezzlement could be applied...... embezzlement means nothing more nor less than a fraudulent misappropriation, and although it is called embezzlement where it is committed by a servant or clerk, because it is only in that case...