 | United States. Supreme Court - 1852 - 668 sider
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1854 - 732 sider
...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 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... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1859 - 738 sider
...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 which...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,... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Edmund F. Moore - 1864 - 598 sider
...one of the accom- 1864paniments of a river, technically so called, is the BKOWK bank. It is said 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 with water as to he distinguished from the banks by the... | |
 | Louis Houck - 1868 - 268 sider
...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 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... | |
 | 1881 - 572 sider
...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 which...confine the waters, when they rise out of the bed : and the bed is that soil so usually covered with water as to be distinguishable from the banks by... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 746 sider
...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 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... | |
 | 1881 - 572 sider
...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 which...confine the waters, when they rise out of the bed : and the bed is that soil so usually covered with water as to be distinguishable from the banks by... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 sider
...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 which confine the waters 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... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1882 - 962 sider
...664; sc, 22 Am. Rep. 714; Aug. on Water-Courses, 5th ed., § 4; Barnes \. Sabron, 10 Nev. 218. "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 BO usually covered with water as to be distinguishable from the banks by 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,... 
