 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
 | John Lane Van Ornum - Rivers - 1914 - 432 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... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 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." ... • Neither is it necessary to consider the treaty stipulations. . . . The Rio Grande, so far as... | |
 | Harold Edgar Barnes - Constitutional law - 1915 - 376 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,... | |
 | William James Jackman - Interstate commerce - 1916 - 424 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." Nice Distinction in Interpretation. Thus a stream of sufficient capacity to float logs or timber to... | |
 | William James Jackman - Interstate commerce - 1916 - 424 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." Mice Distinction in Interpretation. Thus a stream of sufficient capacity to float logs or timber to... | |
 | Joseph Walter Bingham - Water rights - 1916 - 778 pages
...the limits of New Mexico, is not a stream over which, in its ordinary condition, trade and travel can be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Its use for any purposes of transportation has been and is exceptional, and only in times of temporary... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 534 pages
...being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways of 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 - 1917 - 1450 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 point was set forth more clearly in The Montello, 20 Wall. 430, 22 L. ed. 391, where the question... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1920 - 886 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 commercial power of Congress authorizes such legislation as will insure the convenient and safe... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Water Power - Water-power - 1918 - 902 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 point was set forth more clearly in the Montello, 20 Wallace, 430. where the question was whether... | |
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