 | 1874 - 436 էջ
...water, and as a navigable water of the United States when it forms by itself or by its connections with other waters a continued highway over which commerce...States or foreign countries in the customary modes, etc . A steamboat navigating that river is therefore subject to the laws which require that a license... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1885 - 1130 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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,... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - 1881 - 402 էջ
...River, by their connection with those of the Ohio River, form a continued highway over which trade is or may be carried on with other States or foreign countries, and is therefore a common highway of commerce within the intent and meaning of the statute referred... | |
 | 1904 - 906 էջ
...law, which are navigable in fact," and that "they constitute navigable waters of the United State* within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction...states or foreign countries, in the customary modes ia which such commerce is conducted by water." The same principle was applied in The Muñidlo, 20 Wall.... | |
 | John Melville Gould - 1883 - 972 էջ
...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... | |
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And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of 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,... 
