 | United States. Supreme Court - 1871 - 726 pages
...trade and travel on water. / 4. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within tho meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of tho States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 750 pages
...And a river is a navigable water of the United States when it forms by itself, or by its connection with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is, or may be, carried with other States or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1885 - 1130 pages
...supplied to factories along the Merrimac below. They do not form by themselves, or by their connection with other waters, a continued highway over which...commerce is, or may be, carried on with other States. The lake is Dot a navigable water of the United States, but only of the State. This quotation is from... | |
 | Rhode Island. Harbor Commissioners - 1877 - 742 pages
...Laws of the United Stales, 1886, page 150), being one that "Forms in its ordinary condition, by itself or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway...which commerce is or may be carried on with other Stales and foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water;"... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1878 - 764 pages
...The Wisconsin river may have such a connection with the Mississippi as to form with it a continuous highway, over which commerce is, or may be, carried on with other states; but until congress exercises its power over the subject, the improvement legalized by the state cannot... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 912 pages
...The Wisconsin river may have such a connection with the Mississippi as to form with it a continuous highway, over which commerce is, or may be carried on with other States; but until Congress exercises its power over the subject the improvement legalized by the State cannot... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 pages
...1884.) 1. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW— NAVIGABLE WATERS OF UNITED STATES. Kivers are navigable waters of the United States, within the meaning of the acts of congress, in contradistinction from the navigable rivers of the states, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1880 - 426 pages
...within the limits of a State, and which does not, by connecting with other waters, form a continuous highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or with foreign countries.2 It is otherwise, however, with a river which, though wholly within a State,... | |
 | John Melville Gould - 1883 - 972 pages
...American waters, and those rivers are public and navigable in law which are navigable in fact. If, in their ordinary condition, by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, they form a continued highway, over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign... | |
 | 1884 - 1006 pages
...And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of conjTess, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of...by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a contiued highway over which commerce is or may be carNo. 12—2 ried on with other states or foreign... | |
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Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce "is or may be carried on with other States or foreign... 
