 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1950 - 824 pages
...or is susceptible of use, in its ordinary condition, as a highway of commerce over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557, 563. It is not the fact that the tide ebbs and flows in a stream, nor... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 530 pages
...susceptible of being used, In their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted In the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Ib. 4. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States, within the meaning of the acts of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 726 pages
...being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trndo and travel arc or may be conducted in the customary modes . of trade and travel on water. / 4. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within tho meaning of the acts of Congress,... | |
 | Emory Washburn - Servitudes - 1873 - 830 pages
...susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.2 1 Stover ». Jack, 60 Penn. 339. See Crovert v. O'Connor, 8 Watts, 477. * The Daniel Ball,... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1909 - 732 pages
...limits of New Mexico, being ;i stream over which in its ordinary condition trade and travel can not be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water; that is to say, the point had been reached at which the river finally ceased to be navigable. Reviewing... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 840 pages
...susceptlol» <>f being used. In their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted In the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And a river Is a navigable water of the United States when It forms by Itself, or by Its connection... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 750 pages
...susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And a river is a navigable water of the United States when it forms by itself, or by its connection... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Boundaries (Estates) - 1876 - 604 pages
...susceptible of being used in their ordinary condition as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water ; and it was further declared that they constitute navigable waters of the United States, within the... | |
 | Henry Billings Brown - Admiralty - 1876 - 620 pages
...susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water (The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557). That Saginaw river, from Saginaw City to its mouth, upon which the... | |
 | Henry Billings Brown - Admiralty - 1876 - 626 pages
...susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and trayel on water (The Daniel JSatt, 10 Wall. 557)*. That Saginaw river, from Saginaw City to its mouth,... | |
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Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and... 
