 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
 | Ezra Parmalee Prentice, John Garret Egan - Constitutional law - 1898 - 470 pages
...rafts, nor upon the difficulties attending navigation. Capability of use by the public affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river rather than the extent and manner of use.4 Navigation by vessels is but a branch of commerce, and, when navigable streams are best fitted... | |
 | New Mexico. Supreme Court, John Abbott, Paul A. F. Walter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 762 pages
...the customary niodes 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 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. * *... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - Mexico - 1901 - 298 pages
...modes of trade and travel on water. In the case of the Montello, 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 highway. The vital and... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Glenroy Kreider - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 884 pages
...said that "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." It was held in Haines v. Hall, 17 Ore. 165 (20 Pac. 831, 3 LRA 609), that a stream which has a floatable... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1268 pages
...court said: 'The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affordsthe 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.' Vessels of any kind that can... | |
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