Section 28-4-282
Appliances used, etc., for distillation or manufacture of prohibited liquors and beverages declared contraband; said appliances and products thereof to be summarily destroyed by sheriffs, etc., finding same; property, etc., where distillery, etc., found forfeited to state.
All appliances which have been used or are used or ready to be used for the purpose of distilling or manufacturing any prohibited liquors or beverages are contraband, and no person, firm or corporation or association of persons shall have any property rights in or to the same, and when said appliances or apparatus so used or ready to be used or that have been used for the manufacture of any prohibited liquors and beverages shall be found by any sheriff or other law officer, the same shall be by said officer at once summarily destroyed and rendered useless for service. The officer shall also summarily destroy any liquor or liquids, the product of a distillery or plant for the making of a prohibited liquor which he may find on the premises, and the owner of said distillery or plant or any person permitting the same to exist on the premises shall forfeit to the State of Alabama all property used in connection with said illegal plant, together with the buildings and lots or parcels of ground constituting the premises on which the unlawful act is performed or permitted to be performed.
(Acts 1919, No. 7, p. 6; Code 1923, §4775; Code 1940, T. 29, §244.)