 | William Graydon - Law - 1803 - 730 pages
...district courts to their rcspec« live circuit courts. [See pastea 52.] 11. S*CT. XI. The circuit courts shall have original cognizance» concurrent with the...common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute ex» cetds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the united states are... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 680 pages
...of 1789, vol. ±, tMm' p. 55,) the Circuit Courts have original cognizance of all. suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds the value of 500 dollars, &c. And by the 14th sect, of the same act they have power to issue all writs... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 764 pages
...of the said act, already cited, Ch. 186, a. 10. By the 11th section of this act, the circuit courts have original cognizance concurrent with the courts...common law, or in equity, " where the matter in dispute does not exceed $500, and the United States are pits, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...jurisdiction of Circuit Courts to the District Courts." These Circuit Courts, thus organized, are vested with original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds 500 dollars, exclusive of costs, and the United States are plaintiffs, or an alien is a party, or the... | |
 | Peter Force - Almanacs, American - 1834 - 434 pages
...original cognizance, contrent with the Courts of the severa! Simes, of all suits of a civil na.ure, at common law, or in equity ; where the matter in dispute exceeds, Circuit L'ourís. l ti xclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the Jnited... | |
 | Peter Force - United States - 1835 - 404 pages
...have original cognizance, con current win the courts nt the several States, ot all suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity ; where the matter...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value ot five hundred dollais, unrl the U ited States are plaintiffs or petitioners ; or an alien is a party,... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - Commercial law - 1837 - 886 pages
...holdSuits by aliens, or citizen of one en at special places — when 552 ART. 522. The circuit courts ancis Gordon Bum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners ; or an alien... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1838 - 850 pages
...judiciary act of 1789, so far as it respects this question, is in these word's: "That the circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars; and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party,... | |
 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 546 pages
...justices of the supreme court, together with the judge of the district. They are invested with orignal cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several...law or in equity where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars exclusive of costs, and the United States are plaintiffs, or an alien is a party,... | |
 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 560 pages
...the district. They are invested with orignal cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the severtl states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars exclusive of costs, and the United States are plaintiffs, or an alien is a party,... | |
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That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs,... 
