 The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes...  Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin - Page 298by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - 1924Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 968 pages
...highway. The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather...matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and becomes in law a public river or highway." As the resuft of the current... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1164 pages
...Hence the capability of use by the public for the purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather...commerce, no matter in what mode the commerce may be carried on, it Is navigable in fact, and therefore becomes, in our law, a public river or highway.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1132 pages
...such use, affords the criterion by which the navigability of a river is to be determined; and that if it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes of commerce, carried on in any mode, it is navigable in fact, and therefore is, in our law, a public river or highway.... | |
 | New Mexico. Governor - 1887 - 724 pages
...the customary modes of trade and travel on water." In the Montillo (20 Wallace, 431) the court says: "If it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes of commerce, no matter in what modi' that commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact and becomes a public river or highway.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1304 pages
...the navigability of waters. If they are capable in their natural state of being used for the purpose of commerce, no matter In what mode the commerce may be conducted, they are navigable In fact, and become in law public highways. It Is therefore laid down in the American... | |
 | Christopher Stuart Patterson - Constitutional law - 1888 - 336 pages
...441, "the capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce " affords the " true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather...matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and beromes in law a public river or highway." Story, J., whether or not,... | |
 | Christopher Stuart Patterson - Constitutional law - 1888 - 342 pages
...441, "the capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce " affords the " true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather...be capable in its natural state of being used for pnrposesof commerce, no matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact,... | |
 | New Mexico (Ter.). Governor - 1892 - 872 pages
...the customary modes of trade and travel on water." In the Montillo (20 Wallace, 431) the court says: "If it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes of commerce, no matter in what mode that commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and becomes a public river or highway. ยป... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1038 pages
...of the United States, but only a navigable water of the state." The Montello, 20 Wall. 430, says: " If it be capable in its natural state of being used...matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and becomes in law a public river or highway The learned judge of the court... | |
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