navigable water, in the broadest sense, a stream or body of water that can be used for commercial transportation. When, as in the early common law, the term is restricted to waters affected by tides, it denotes only the open sea and tidal rivers.
Navigable Waters
any body of water that is deep enough, wide enough and safe enough for a vessel to operate safely. It can include rivers, canals, harbors and the high seas.
NAVIGABLE. Capable of being navigated.
2. In law, the term navigable is applied to the sea, to arms of the sea, and to rivers in which the tide flows and reflows. 5 Taunt. R. 705; S. C. Eng. Com. Law Rep. 240; 5 Pick. R. 199; Ang. Tide Wat.
Navigable waters
Definition - Noun
: waters that are capable of being navigated (as for commerce) and to which federal admiralty jurisdiction and specific environmental regulations apply < ...
The ownership of a stream bed may depend upon whether the stream is or is not a navigable water.
Non-tidal waters, even though navigable, are in Great Britain prima facie private waters, in which the right of navigation does not exist as a public franchise, but can only be acquired by prescription founded on a presumed grant by an owner.
Congress intended that Title VII proceedings be navigable by pro se claimants. Stache v. Intern. Bricklayers Union, 852 F.2d 1231, 1233-34 (9th Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 815 (1989).
It is a legal aunthority of the governemnet that a property or even a navigable vessel like a ship is unsafe for staying or using for any other purpose because of its construction defects and therefore should be vacated.
Buoy: a floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables, and the like; floating devices fixed in place at sea, ...
concerning activities which occur at sea, including on small boats and ships in navigable bays.
33 C.F.R. - Navigation and Navigable Waters
46 C.F.R. - Shipping
Federal Judicial Decisions and Rules
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The extent of these rights varies from country to country and may include the right to build a wharf outwards to a navigable depth or to take emergency measures to prevent flooding.
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Admiralty Law/Maritime
the area of law that relates to the high seas and other navigable waters, which is administered by the admiralty courts.
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admiralty law Law pertaining to maritime contracts, collisions, and torts involving American vessels on the high seas or navigable lakes and rivers.
" With few exceptions, all non-seaman injured over navigable waters are covered instead by the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. ยง 901 et seq., a powerful form of workers' compensation.
rights include the right of access to, and use of the water for domestic purposes (bathing, cleaning and navigating). The extent of these rights varies from country to country and may include the right to build a wharf outwards to a navigable depth ...
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