River

A body of flowing water of no specific dimensions — larger than a brook or rivulet, less than a sea; a running stream pent on each side bj- walls or banks.s A considerable stream of water that has a current of its own flowing from higher level, which constitutes its source, to its mouth where it debouches.'' Banks of rivers are the boundaries which contain their waters at their highest flow, making the bed of the river. 5 Elvers have banks, shores, waters, and a bed. Though naturally navigable, even for boats and rafts, rivers and the smaller streams are often regarded as public rights, subject to legislative control, aS the means of creating power for operating mills and machinei'y, or as furnishing supplies of flsh, even where private persons own the banks and soil under the water.** In many States, the public title to the beds and shores of navigable streams is confined to tide-water; in Federal matters, to navigability.' Proprietors bordering upon streams not navigable, unless unrestrained by the terms of their grants, hold to the center of the stream; proprietors on navigable rivers, under titles from the United States, to the stream. If the latter hold to the center Jine, the public have an easement for purposes of a highway.*" See- Along; AqoA; Bed, 1; Boundary; Commerce; Dangers; Fishery; Ice; Levee; Meander; Navigable; Peril; Property, Qualified; Eipaeian; Sea; Water-mark.