 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...  Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin - Page 298by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - 1924Full view - About this book
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 712 pages
...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." In like manner the Court of Appeals of New York, in Morgan v. King, So NY 454, lays down the rule as... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1120 pages
...being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways Tor commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States, within the meaning of the acts of Congress,... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - Customs administration - 1881 - 402 pages
...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 they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress,... | |
 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1882 - 850 pages
...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. For other cases, see note on admiralty jurisdiction in chapter on Judicial... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1200 pages
...being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade und travel are or may be conducted In the customary modes of trade and travel on water. " The same reasons, therefore, exist In this country for the exclusion of the right of private ownership... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1006 pages
...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 they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of conjTess,... | |
 | James Kent, Charles M. Barnes - Law - 1884 - 882 pages
...said to be navigable which are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel may be conducted in the customary mode. The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557, 563. x* The jurisdiction as to tort is said to depend entirely... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1024 pages
...being used, in its ordinary condition, as a highway for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Willow river, an indirect tributary of the Mississippi, capable of floating logs at certain seasons... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...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 they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of congress,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 914 pages
...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... | |
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