navigational servitude
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Definitions from Case Law
From 365 U.S. 624 - United States v. Virginia Electric & Power Co. · 1961Most cited · 607 citing opinions
the privilege to appropriate without compensation which attaches to the exercise of the 'power of the government to control and regulate navigable waters in the interest of commerce.' The power 'is a dominant one which can be asserted to the exclusion of any competing or conflicting one.