 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Gordon Swan - 1854 - 756 halaman
...proprietori, an affected by the navigability of a water course. If a water course be navigable in a legal sense, the soil covered by the water, as well as the use of the stream, belongs to the public. If it be navigable only in the ordinary sense, the ownership of the bed of the stream is in the riparian... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1876 - 604 halaman
...lighter draft than ordinary. It was further declared that, if a river or water course be navigable in a legal sense, the soil covered by the water, as well as the use of the stream, belongs to the public. If it be navigable only in the ordinary sense, the ownership of the bed of the stream is in the riparian... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1927 - 536 halaman
...quoted by Mr. Chief Justice Neil in his Reelfoot opinion, it is said : "If a watercourse be navigable in the legal sense, the soil covered by the water...well as the use of the stream, belongs to the public. If it be navigable only in the ordinary sense, the ownership of the bed of the stream is in the riparian... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1882 - 912 halaman
...first impression in this State and upon which there is grave doubt. If a water-course be navigable in a legal sense the soil covered by the water as well as the use of the stream belongs to the public. If it be navigable only in the ordinary sense the ownership of the bed of the stream is in the riparian... | |
 | William Henry Malone - 1883 - 824 halaman
...small vessels of lighter draft than ordinary. It was also held that, if a river or stream be navigable in the legal sense, the soil covered by the water,...well as the use of the stream, belongs to the public. If it be navigable only in the ordinary sense, the ownership of the bed of the stream is in the riparian... | |
 | 1886 - 896 halaman
...all purposes of navigation, the public liave the same right whether it be navigable or not navigable. If the river be a public navigable stream in the legal...use of the stream, belongs to the public. But if it bo not navigable in the legal meaning of the term — as is the case in England as to all streams above... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1886 - 968 halaman
...thence up or down Goodwin T. Thompson. with its'meanders, carries title at most only to low-water mark, the soil covered by the water, as well as the use of the stream for the purpose of navigation, belonging to and remaining in the public. Elder v. Burrus, 6 Humph.... | |
 | Benjamin James Lea - 1886 - 812 halaman
...on its bank, and thence up or down with its meanders, carries title at most only to low water mark, the soil covered by the water, as well as the use of the stream for the purpose of navigation, belonging to, and remaining in, the public: Elder v. Burrua, 6 Hum.,... | |
 | 1907 - 1350 halaman
...Rep. 367. In the case of Holbert v. Edens, supra, It Is said: "If a water course be navigable in a legal sense, the soil covered by the water, as well...as the use of the stream, belongs to the public." In the case of Goodwin v. Thompson, 15 Lea, 215, 54 Am. Rep. 410, this court held, not only that the... | |
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If the river be a public navigable stream, in the legal sense, the soil covered by the water, as well as the use of the stream, belongs to the public. But if it be not navigable in the legal meaning of the term... 
