Stream

A current of water; a body of flowing water. The word, in its ordinary sense, includes rivers. But Caliis defines a stream "a current of waters running over the level at random, and not kept in with banks or walls." Call. Sew. [83,] 133. See Munson v. Hungerford, 6 Barb. (N. Y.) 270; French v. Carhart, 1 N. Y. 107; Milier v. Black Rock Springs Imp. Co., 99 Va. 747, 40 S. E. 27, 86 Am. St Rep. 924; Armfield v. State, 27 Ind. App. 488, 61 N. E. 693; Trustees of Schools v. Schroll, 120 111. 509, 12 N. E. 243, 60 Am. Rep. 575.

— Private stream. A non-navigable creek oi water-course, the bed or channel of which is exclusively owned by a private individual. See Adams v. Pease. 2 Conn. 484; Reynolds v. Com., 93 Pa461.