 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 Central Law Journal - Page 2951891Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1908 - 2040 pages
...rivers in law which are navigable in fact. Rivers «re navigable in fact when they are used, or aro susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, on which trade and travel are, or nay \*> conducted, in the customary mode.« of trade and travel on... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Corporations - 1909 - 650 pages
...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...the customary modes of trade and travel on water." Thus a stream of sufficient capacity to float logs or timber to market has been held to be navigable... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1909 - 830 pages
...those rivers are regarded as navigable in law which are navigable in fact, and they are navigable in fact when they are used or are susceptible of being...conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on the water. The Supreme Court of Michigan has repeatedly held that the beds of the streams, whether... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1910 - 626 pages
...and, as said in The Daniel Ball, 77' IT. S. (10 Wall.) 5Г.7, ÍO L. Ed. !Ш. they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being...the customary modes of trade and travel on water." Quoting from another case, the learned justice proceeds: "We are aware that, by the common law of England,... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1910 - 900 pages
...WalL 557 ; 19 L. ed. 999. which are navigarle in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are so used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary...the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And they -constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Committee on Water Powers, Forestry, and Drainage - 1911 - 846 pages
...661 (1891) ; Rhea v. Newport, etc.. Ry. Co., 50 Fed. 16 (1892). Rivers or streams are navigable in fact "when they are used, or are susceptible of being...customary modes of trade and travel on water. ' ' The Daniel Ball, supra., p. 563 ; Packer v. Bird, supra ; Rhea v. Newport, etc., Co., supra. "The use now... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Committee on water powers, forestry, and drainage - 1911 - 834 pages
...the limits of New Mexico is not a stream over which in its ordinary condition trade and travel can be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Its use for any purposes or transportation has been and is exceptional, and only in times of high water.... | |
 | United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General - 1912 - 1138 pages
...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...the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And they coastitute navigable waters of the United States, in contradistinction from the navigable... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1912 - 678 pages
...navigable rivSrs in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are so used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary...the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Lake Shore Reclamation Commission, Theodore Kepner Long - 1912 - 420 pages
...And depends upon whether used, or susceptible of being used, in Its ordinary condition, as a highway for commerce over which trade and travel are or may...the customary modes of trade and travel on water. ScHulte v. Warren, 218 1ll. 108. From inquiries made on this point I should say that Lake Calumet is... | |
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