Dobbins's Distillery v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “the unlawful acts of the distiller bind the owner of the property, in respect to the management of the same, as much as if they were committed by the owner himself”
• requiring seizure of the “property inculpated” before institution of an in rem forfeiture action
• upholding forfeiture of lessor’s property when used for illegal purposes by lessee
• \[T]he acts of violation as to the penal consequences to the property are to be considered just the same as if they were the acts of the owner\
• “[T]he acts of violation as to the penal consequences to the property are to be considered just the same as if they were the acts of the owner”
• “the thing in such a case is primarily considered as the offender, or rather that the offence is attached primarily to the thing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).