 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 422 pages
...Massachusetts. The circuit courts are held twice a year in each district. § 26. The circuit courts have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 pages
...all causes, except civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, shall be by jury. 9. SEc. xi. The circuit courts shall have original cognizance,...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party,... | |
 | Maryland. Court of Appeals, Thomas Harris, Reverdy Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 614 pages
...of the act of congress of 1789, th. 20, it is provided, "that the circuit court of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with, the...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United Stales are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party,... | |
 | Elijah Paine - Civil procedure - 1830 - 684 pages
...fee. n of " The circuit courts shall have original cognizance, conihe judiciary „ • e <*1- current with the courts of the several states, of all suits...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners ; or an alien is a party,... | |
 | Peter Force - Almanacs, American - 1831 - 388 pages
...f"1 т inhlt* 1 .... CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE USITKI) STATES. The circuit courts ol the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...exceeds, 'exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the ; United Slates ate plantiffs, or petitioners, or an alien is a party,... | |
 | Gray and Bowen - 1831 - 364 pages
...statutes, commissions, or authorities, in dispute. CIRCUIT COURTS. The Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of 600 dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit... | |
 | Joseph White Moulton - Equity pleading and procedure - 1831 - 506 pages
...from Chancery. Circuit courts have original cognizance concurrent with state courts of civil suits in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners ; or an alien is a party; or the suit is between a... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1832 - 1028 pages
...courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, where be matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of 500 dollars, and the Uuited States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit... | |
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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,... 
