 | Illinois - Executive departments - 1922 - 882 pages
...state, is used, or capable of being used as,a highway for commerce, over which trade and travel is or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Navigability, in the sense of the law, is not destroyed because the watercourse is interrupted by occasional... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 668 pages
...natural state is used or capable of being used as a highway for commerce over which trade and travel is or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water, and navigability is not destroyed by natural obstructions or portages, or because navigation is not... | |
 | Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research - United States - 1923 - 148 pages
...susceptible of 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. Navigation of streams as it had existed in the colonies began to encounter considerable competition... | |
 | United States - Law - 1923 - 1256 pages
...of being used, in its natural and ordinary condition as a highway for commerce over which trade and travel are, or may be, conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Id. The fact that Congress, in permitting the construction of certain bridges across the Red river... | |
 | Milton Conover - Administrative agencies - 1923 - 148 pages
...susceptible of 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. Navigation of streams as it had existed in the colonies began to encounter considerable competition... | |
 | United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors - Harbors - 1923 - 258 pages
...they are used or can be used in their ordinary condition as highways for commerce on which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on waters. And they constitute the " navigable waters of the United States " within the meaning of the... | |
 | United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors - Harbors - 1923 - 256 pages
...they are used or can be used in their ordinary condition as highways for commerce on which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on waters. And they constitute the " navigable waters of the United States " within the meaning of the... | |
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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... 
