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• navigable waters — Rivers or other bodies of water used, or susceptible of being used in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Elder v Delcour,… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• navigable waters — noun plural law : waters which form in their ordinary condition by themselves or by uniting with other waters a continuous highway over which commerce in the customary mode in which it is conducted by water is or may be carried on with other… …   Useful english dictionary

• navigable waters of the United States — Those waters which are subject to the control of the Federal government for the regulation of commerce, and to which the Federal judicial power extends for the purpose of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. The high seas and such lakes and… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• lands beneath navigable waters — The beds of navigable rivers. For detailed statement made for the purposes of the Submerged Lands Act, see 43 USC § 1301 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Navigable servitude — is a United States constitutional doctrine that gives the federal government the right to regulate navigable waterways as an extension of the Commerce Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the constitution. It is also sometimes called federal… …   Wikipedia

• navigable — See navigable waters @ navigable in fact Streams or lakes are navigable in fact when they are used or are susceptible of being used in their natural and ordinary condition as highways for commerce over which trade and travel are or may be… …   Black's law dictionary

• navigable river — See navigable waters …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• navigable — index open (accessible), passable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 navigable …   Law dictionary

• waters — n. 1) flood waters (the flood waters receded) 2) coastal; international; navigable; territorial waters 3) in waters (the ship was in international waters) 4) (misc.) to fish in muddy/troubled waters ( to attempt to stir up trouble ); to take the… …   Combinatory dictionary

• navigable — adjective after October, these waters are not navigable by ordinary craft Syn: passable, negotiable, traversable; clear, open, unobstructed, unblocked …   Thesaurus of popular words