 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 726 pages
...capacity. Those rivers are public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. ( 8. Rivers are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible...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
...navigable capacity. Those rivers are 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... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...constitutes a navigable river, as follows : " This court held in the case of the Daniel Ball (10 Wallace) that those rivers must be regarded as public navigable...in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of beingused, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 840 pages
...held that It Is. The court said : " This court held, In the case of the Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557. that those rivers must be regarded as public navigable...they are navigable In fact when they are used, or are susceptlol» <>f being used. In their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade... | |
 | Henry Norris Copp - Land tenure - 1875 - 1000 pages
...indicate the United States law upon both points. Rivers are deemed navigable waters of the United States when they are used or are susceptible of being used...their ordinary condition as highways for commerce between the States. (The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall., 557; the Montello, 11 Wall., 411.) Under the acts of... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 712 pages
...and after a sale to others. Putt v. Duncan, 461 WATERCOURSES. NAVIGABLE STREAMS. 1. Defin;t;on. — Those rivers must be regarded as public, navigable...and they are navigable in fact when they are used or capable of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade or travel... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1120 pages
...was actually used in navigation. In The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557, 563, 19 L. Ed. 999, it was said: "Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable...being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways Tor commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1912 pages
...a river — the ebb and now of the tide therein — does not apply to the rivers of this country : "Those rivers must be regarded as public, navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact; and the}' are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 906 pages
...foreign countries, was a navigable water of 1 lie United States ; and the rule was broadly announced that "those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law, which are navigable in fact," and that "they constitute navigable waters of the United State* within the meaning of the acts of Congress,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1200 pages
...public und the riparian owner, and such test Is found in their navigable capacity. Those rivers are regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And, as said in the case of the The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557, 563: "They are navigable in fact when they... | |
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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... 
