 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...  The American and English Encyclopedia of Law - Page 238edited by - 1891Full view - About this book
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1953 - 968 pages
...watercourse In question Is either used or susceptible of use In Its ordinary condition as a highway for commerce over which trade and travel are or may...modes of trade and travel on water. The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557, 603. We have found as a fact that the Missouri River IB navigable. 806 Opinion of the... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1950 - 824 pages
...susceptible of use, in its ordinary condition, as a highway of commerce over which trade and travel may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Navigable Waters ©=> 1 (3) Same; burden of proving navigability. — The burden of proving navigability... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 530 pages
...navigable rivers In law which are navigable in fact. Ib. 3. Rivers are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, In their...the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Ib. 4. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States, within the meaning of the acts of... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 436 pages
...regarded as navigable in law which are navigable in fact, being used or susceptible of being used in ordinary condition as highways for commerce over which...the customary modes of trade and travel on water, and as a navigable water of the United States when it forms by itself or by its connections with other... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 726 pages
...public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. ( 8. Rivers are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their...ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trndo and travel arc or may be conducted in the customary modes . of trade and travel on water. / 4.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 730 pages
...public navigable rivers In law which are navigable in fact. 8. Rivers are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, us highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in tho customary modes... | |
 | Emory Washburn - Servitudes - 1873 - 830 pages
...public navigable rivers in law, if they are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their...conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.2 1 Stover ». Jack, 60 Penn. 339. See Crovert v. O'Connor, 8 Watts, 477. * The Daniel Ball,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1873 - 820 pages
...meaning of these decisions is navigability in fact, and those rivers are said to be navigable which are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition,...highways for commerce, over which trade and travel may be conducted in the customary mode. The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557, 563. The jurisdiction as to... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1909 - 732 pages
...limits of New Mexico, being ;i stream over which in its ordinary condition trade and travel can not be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water; that is to say, the point had been reached at which the river finally ceased to be navigable. Reviewing... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 840 pages
...which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable In fact when they are used, or are susceptlol» <>f being used. In their ordinary condition, as highways...the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And a river Is a navigable water of the United States when It forms by Itself, or by Its connection... | |
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