 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
 | Appellate courts - 1905 - 856 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,... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Irrigation laws - 1893 - 640 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."2 And the rule thus formulated has been adopted in nearly all the states. So that it may now... | |
 | United States - Ships - 1895 - 360 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 866 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." This definiOpinion of the Court. tion was followed and affirmed in Packer v. Bird, 137 US 661, 667.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1030 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 - Military law - 1897 - 1176 pages
...beinc used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, on which trade пЛ travel are, or may be conducted, in the customary modes of trade and travel on waters; and they constitute navigable waters of tho United States, within the meaning of tho acts of... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 772 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." Tfo Daniel Hall, 10 "Wall. 55Y. That case was expressly approved in a later case, where it was held... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...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,... | |
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