A General Abridgement of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles ; with Notes and References to the Whole, Volume 16G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793 - Law |
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Page 589 - ... effect, a proceeding against the owner of the property as well as against the goods; for it is his breach of the laws which has to be proved to establish the forfeiture, and it is his property which is sought to be forfeited. In the words of a great judge, 'Goods, as goods, cannot offend, forfeit, unlade, pay duties, or the like, but men whose goods they are.
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