LAGESEN, C. J.
Historically—in Oregon and elsewhere —the law has provided for the forfeiture of property involved in criminal activity, regardless of the owner's involvement in any crime. The law has done so through a legal fiction: that property itself can be a guilty actor, entitling the government to take it.
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