middle of the stream

middle of the stream
The thread of a navigable river at mid-channel, generally equally distant from either bank. 56 Am J1st Wat § 177. In international law, and by the usage of European nations, the term as applied to a navigable river, is the same as the middle of the channel of the stream. By the language, "a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi from its source to the river Iberville," as there used, is meant along the middle of the channel of the river Mississippi. Iowa v Illinois, 147 US 1, 8, 37 L Ed 55, 57, 13 S Ct 239. See mid-channel.

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