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| | Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. PARCEL OF RUMSON, N.J., LAND, 507 U.S. 111 (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Although proceeds traceable to illegal drug transactions are, in 881(h)'s words, "property described in subsection" (a)(6), the latter subsection exempts from civil forfeiture proceeds owned by one unaware of their criminal source, and therefore must allow an assertion of the innocent owner defense before 881(h) applies. |
 | | It is not an uncommon course in the admiralty, acting under the law of nations, to treat the vessel in which or by which, or by the master or crew thereof, a wrong or offense has been done as the offender, without any regard whatsoever to the personal misconduct or responsibility of the owner thereof. |
 | | In short, the acts of the master and crew, in cases of this sort, bind the interest of the owner of the ship, whether he be innocent or guilty; and he impliedly submits to whatever the law denounces as a forfeiture attached to the ship by reason of their unlawful or wanton wrongs." Harmony v. |
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