Supreme Court of New Hampshire June 5, 1880 (Berlin Mills Co. v. Wentworth's Location)

Bingham, J.

A river has been defined as a natural stream of water flowing betwixt banks or walls in a bed of considerable depth and width, being- so called whether its current sets always one way, or flows and reflows with the tide (2 Bouv. L. Die. 487), and as water flowing in a channel between banks more or less defined.

Rex v. Oxfordshire,

1 B. & Ad. 289;

State

v. Gilmanton, 14 N. H. 467, 478.