What is CHANNEL? Definition of CHANNEL in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
The bed in which the main stream of a river flows, rather than the deep water of the stream as followed in navigation. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, 558, 8 N.W. 443. See The Oliver, D.C.Va., 22 F. 849; Iowa v. Illinois, 147 U.S. 1, 13 S.Ct. 239, 37 L.Ed. 55. But the term is sometimes used to designate the customary and traveled fairway. The Arlington, C.C.A.N.Y., 19 F.2d 285, 286, 54 A.L.R. 101. It may also be used as a generic term applicable to any water course, whether a river, creek, slough, or canal. McKissick Cattle Co. v. Alsaga, 41 Cal.App. 380, 182 P. 793, 797. The "channel" of a river is to be distinguished from a "branch." U. S. v. Hutchings, D.C.Okl., 252 F. 841, 844.
Main Channel
That bed of the river over which the principal volume of water flows. St. Louis & St. P. Packet Co. V. Keokuk & H. Bridge Co., C.C.Iowa, 31 F. 757. Compare State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas, 258 U.S. 574, 42 S.Ct. 406, 414, 66 L.Ed. 771. The main channel of a navigable stream, called for as a boundary between states, means the "thalweg," or deepest and most navigable channel as it then existed. Whiteside v. Norton, C.C.A.Minn., 205 F. 5, 9.
Natural Channel
The channel of a stream as determined by the natural conformation of the country through which it flows. See Larrabee v. Cloverdale, 131 Cal. 96, 63 P. 143. The floor or bed on which the water flows, and the banks on each side thereof as carved out by natural causes. Pima Farms Co. v. Proctor, 30 Ariz. 96, 245 P. 369, 372.
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