 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
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - Legislative journals - 1909 - 828 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 the water. The Supreme Court of Michigan has repeatedly held that the beds of the streams, whether... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 628 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." Quoting from another case, the learned justice proceeds: "We are aware that, by the common law of England,... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 900 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... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Committee on Water Powers, Forestry, and Drainage - Drainage - 1911 - 834 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, supra, p. 563; Packer v. Bird, supra ; Rhea v. Newport, etc., Co., supra. "The use... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1912 - 678 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913 - 1000 pages
...being used, in the 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 the Montello (20 Wall. 431), the court says: " If it be capable in its natural state of being used... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 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 Lane Van Ornum - Rivers - 1914 - 436 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."1 A stream of sufficient capacity to float logs or timber to market has been held to be navigable... | |
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