navigability in fact

navigability in fact
The susceptibility of a river to use in its ordinary condition as a highway for commerce over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Oklahoma v Texas, 258 US 574, 586, 66 L Ed 771, 42 S Ct 406, 411; Blackman v Mauldin, 164 Ala 337, 51 So 23.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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