 It is evident that a definition that would at this day limit public rivers in this country to tide-water rivers is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable water, including lakes and rivers in which there is no tide. And certainly...  Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office - Page 124by United States. General Land Office - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 864 pages
...We have thousands of miles of public navigable water, including lakes and rivers, in which there ia no tide. And certainly there can be no reason for...admiralty power over a public tide-water, which does not VOL. in — 19 Berry TS. Snyder, kc. apply with equal force to any other public water used for commercial... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...tide-water rivers is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable waters, including lakes and rivers, in which there is no tide. And certainly...water used for commercial purposes and foreign trade. The lakes and the waters connecting them are undoubtedly public waters ; and we think are within the... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...water rivers is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable waters, including lakes and rivers, in which there is no tide. And certainly...can be no reason for admiralty power over a public tide water, which does not apply with equal force to any other public water used for commercial purposes... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...there is no tide. And certainly there can be no reason for admiralty power over a public tide water, which does not apply with equal force to any other...water used for commercial purposes and foreign trade. The lakes and the waters connecting them are undoubtedly public waters ; and we think are within the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 676 pages
...beneficent work must be devolved upon the judiciary. It is said by the court, " that there is certainly no reason for admiralty power over a public tide-water,...does not apply with equal force to any other public waters used for commercial purposes." Let this proposition be admitted literally, it would fall infinitely... | |
 | Louis Houck - Harbors - 1868 - 268 pages
...tide-waters, is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable water, including lakes and rivers, in which there is no tide. And certainly...water used for commercial purposes and foreign trade." In a subsequent case, this position was re-affirmed,4 and more recently in the case of the Ad. Hine... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 438 pages
...water rivers is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable water, including lakes and rivers, in which there is no tide. And certainly...water used for commercial purposes and foreign trade. The lakes and the waters connecting them are undoubtedly public waters, and, we think, are within the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...tidewater rivers, is utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable waters, including lakes and rivers, in which there is no tide ; and,...does not apply with equal force to any other public waters used for commercial purposes and foreign trade. The lakes, and the waters connecting them, he... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 746 pages
...of miles of public navigable water, including lakes The Propeller Genesee Chief v. Fitzhugh. 12 H. and rivers in which there is no tide. And certainly...can be no reason for admiralty power over a public tide water, which does not apply with equal force to any other public water used for commercial purposes... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 672 pages
...utterly inadmissible. We have thousands of miles of public navigable waters, including lakes and river, in which there is no tide. And certainly there can...water used for commercial purposes and foreign trade. The lakes, and the waters connecting them, are undoubtedly public waters; and we think are within the... | |
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