 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 668 pages
...and most fully accomplish the apparent and leading purpose to establish a natural boundary. 3. That the banks of a river are those elevations of land...bed ; and the bed is that soil so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the' banks, by the character of the soil, or vegetation, or... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1854 - 732 pages
...Morgan t'. Livingston, 6 Mart. (La.) R. 19. CURTIS, J., in Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. (US) R. p. 426, says: — " The banks of a river are those elevations...bed ; and the bed is that soil so usually covered by water, as to be distinguishable from the banks, by the character of the soil or vegetation, or both... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 738 pages
...or encloses a stream at its fullest height, (quce plenissimum ßumen continct.) Dia. 43. 12. 3. 1. The banks of a river are those elevations of land...confine the waters when they rise out of the bed. Curtis, J. 13 Howard's R. 426. As to the banks of rivers, as boundaries of land, see Angelí on Water-Courses,... | |
 | Louis Houck - Harbors - 1868 - 268 pages
...case in the Supreme Court of the United States, this subject is thus discussed by Justice Curtis : " The banks of a river are those elevations of land...bed ; and the bed is that soil so usually covered by water, as to be distinguishable from the banks by the character of the soil, or vegetation, or both,... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 572 pages
...Cily of Hudson. 27 Wis. 664: Augell on Water-Courses (5th ed.),§4; Barnes v. Subrcm, 10 Nev. 218. "The banks of a river are those elevations of land...character of the soil, or vegetation, or both, produced by the common presence and action of flowing water. But neither the line of ordinary high-water mark,... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 572 pages
...City of Hudson. 27 Wie. 664: Angelí on Water-Courses (5th ed.), §4; Santés v. Sabra». 10 Nev. 218. "The banks of a river are those elevations of land...character of the soil, or vegetation, or both, produced by the common presence and action of flowing water. But neither the line of ordinary high-water mark,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 746 pages
...and most fully accomplish the apparent and leading purpose to establish a natural boundary. 3. That the banks of a river are those elevations of land...the bed; and the bed is that soil so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the banks, by the character of the soil, or vegetation, or both,... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law - 1879 - 1054 pages
...which is so often covered by water as to acquire distinct character and features by the submersion. The banks of a river are those elevations of land...when they rise out of the bed ; and the bed is that sod so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the banks, by the i.'harseier of the... | |
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that the banks of a river are those elevations of land which confine the waters when they rise out of the bed ; and the bed is that soil so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the banks by the character of the soil, or vegetation,... 
