 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...courts original jurisdiction 1 It is enacted by the llth section of the judiciary act of Sept. 24, 1789, that the circuit courts shall have original cognizance...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law, or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value... | |
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - Geography - 1852 - 752 pages
...of that court sits also as District Judge of that District. The Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value... | |
 | Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - Forms (Law) - 1852 - 680 pages
...case, without reasonable notice to the adverse party. Act of March 2, 1793, see. 5. The circuit courts have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...the several 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,... | |
 | RICHARD S. FISHER - 1853 - 638 pages
...of that court sits also as District Judge of that District. The Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 790 pages
...courts are vested with equity jurisdiction in certain cases. The judiciary act of 1789, s. 11, gives 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 costs, the sum or value... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 858 pages
...tribunals of our land. • The act reads : (See 1st vol. Stat. at Large, 78.) "Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the circuit courts shall have original...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, wherethe matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1856 - 626 pages
...discharged. The preceding section of the same act (Act 1789, IngersolPs Jlbridg. § 9, p. 87) declares that the circuit courts shall have original cognizance,...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...section of the Judiciary Act (1 US St. L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...citizen of another state in the circuit courts of the United States; and gives to the circuit courts "original cognizance concurrent with the courts of...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law, and at equity." It was certainly intended to give to suitor? having a right to sue in... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 832 pages
...section 231 provides "that the Circuit Courts" (of the United States) "shall have original cognisance 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 esclusive of costs the sum or value... | |
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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,... 
