Right. My understanding is that some trace the civil forfeiture laws that we have today back to what was known at common law as the Deodand, which was based on a theory that the object--an object that was used in killing somebody, sometimes by accident, needed to be forfeited and seized, in part, because of a superstition that it was evil, the thing itself was evil.
Senator Lee discusses the historical origins of civil forfeiture laws.
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