 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1909 - 732 pages
..." The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than...be capable in its natural state of being used for the purposes of commerce, no matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...determined by the mode of conducting its commerce nor the difficulties of navigation, but whether "it is capable in its natural state of being used for purposes of commerce no matter In what mode such commerce may be conducted." The Montello, 20 Wall. 430. The Supreme Court of the United States... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 750 pages
...highway. The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than...commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and beOpinion of the court. comes in law a public river or highway. Vessels of any kind that can flout... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 840 pages
...highway. The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than...manner of that use. If It be capable In Its natural etate of being used for purposes of commerce, no matter In what mode the commerce may be conducted,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...ADMIRALTY. 1. NAVIGABLE RIVER DEFINED. — Fox RIVER IN WISCONSIN A NAVIGABLE RIVER. — A river that is capable in its natural state of being used for purposes...matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, is navigable in fact, and becomes in law a public river or highway. Vessels of any kind that can float... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...commerce, affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than extent and manner ol that use. If it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes 01 commerce, no matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and becomes... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it is capable in its natural state of being used for purposes...mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable m fact, and becomes in law a public river or highway. The Montello, 20 Wall. 430. Those rivers are... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...navigation. The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce, affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it is capable in its natural state of being used for purposes of commerce, no matter in what mode the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1164 pages
...that "the capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use." It was held in Haines v. Hall (Or.) 20 Рас. 831, that a stream which has floatable capacity at certain... | |
 | Ernest Howard Ruffner - Inland navigation - 1885 - 208 pages
...highway. The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. These, and many similar decisions, which could be quoted, show that breadth of view may be expected... | |
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The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes... 
