In Re Kevin Dale Sheffield v. the State of Texas

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• opining that navigable waters and lands under them are not susceptible to private ownership
• noting that public rights applied “as well for shell-fish and floating fish”
• noting that public rights applied “as well for shell-fish and floating fish”
• distinguishing between property owned by the Duke of York in his “regal” capacity as opposed to property held “for his own individual emolument”
• describing watercourse sovereignty as “a public trust for the benefit of the whole community, to be freely used by all for navigation and fishery, as well for shellfish as floating fish”
• embracing the developing body of general law known as the public-trust doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).