 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1895 - 826 pages
...of the state — such as do not, by themselves or by connection with other waters, form a continuous highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other states or foreign countries. Veazie v. Moor, 14 How. 568 ; The Montello, 11 Wall. 411 ; 2Q Wall. 430. This is true notwithstanding... | |
 | Herbert Ransom Spencer - Collisions at sea - 1895 - 540 pages
...concerned.5 Whenever a river forms by itself or its connections a continuous highway, over which commerce may be carried on with other states or foreign countries in the usual manner, admiralty has jurisdiction over vessels navigating it, even though they are engaged in... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Courts - 1896 - 390 pages
...their ordinary condition, by themselves or by uniting with other waters, a continued [continuous ?] highway, over which commerce is or may be carried...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water." The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557. In a later case, the court held that a cause of action arising from... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Constitutional law - 1897 - 860 pages
...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...carried on with other states or foreign countries." " Even when a vessel is plying between ports of the same state, yet if it is navigating the high seas,... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...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...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water. If we apply this test to Grand River, the conclusion follows that it must be regarded as a navigable... | |
 | 1900 - 1098 pages
...water of United States when It forms by Itself, or Its connection with other waters, я continuous highway over which commerce is, or may be, carried on with other States or foreign countries In customary modes In which such commerce is conducted by water, p. 439. Cited and applied in Commonwealth... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1901 - 1032 pages
...when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continual highway over which commerce is or may be carried on...foreign countries in the customary modes in which commerce is conducted by water." Within this distinction, Grand river, in Michigan, was held to constitute... | |
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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,... 
