 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1860 - 600 páginas
...framed) in the sense, we think, in which the same words are used in the ordinance of '87, which provides that the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence shall be public highways. The Massachusetts statute from which it is said our statute was taken, does not contain... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1854 - 732 páginas
...shall be entitled to the privileges of the several States^1 Under the ordinance of 1787, stipulating that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, shall be common highways, and forever free," he who owns the lands on both banks, owns the entire river, subject... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1881 - 802 páginas
...embrace the bed of the river, which is hereby declared a public highway." The ordinance of 1787 provides that the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence shall be common highways and forever free, &c. Considered in connection with this proviso in the ordinance,... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 páginas
...preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them. ARTICLE IV. — ... The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence . . . shall be common highways, and forever free ... to the citizens of the United States . . . ARTICLE V. — ...... | |
 | Albert Poole Jacobs, Henry Allen Chaney - 1889 - 1162 páginas
...is itself interstate commerce : Ibid. (c) Navigation. 406. The declaration in the ordinance of 1787 that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence shall be common highways, and remain forever free," supersedes the common-law doctrine of the necessity of usage... | |
 | 1904 - 982 páginas
...have for many years been known as highways. 1n the ordinance of 1787 the following language is found: "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence shall be common highways and forever free." in Scott v. Wilison, 3 NH 321, it was held the river Muskegon is... | |
 | Niels Henriksen Debel - 1917 - 170 páginas
...the Okaw river for fifty years. But this was in conflict with Article IV of the ordinance of 1787, which provides among other things that ' ' the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and Saint Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free,... | |
 | 1903 - 542 páginas
...congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bonajide purchasers." Also, among other things, that "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence and the carrying places between the same, shall become highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants... | |
 | 1917 - 586 páginas
...the Okaw river for fifty years. But this was in conflict with Article IV of the ordinance of 1787, which provides among other things that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and Saint Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free,... | |
 | 1997 - 1040 páginas
...economical. The pattern was similar in Wisconsin. The Articles of Compact in the Northwest Ordinance assured that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence . . . shall be common highways and forever free." Wisconsin's first territorial settlements were on Lakes Superior... | |
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Under the ordinance of 1787, stipulating that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, shall be common highways, and forever free... 