 | 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...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of 500 dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit... | |
 | 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...of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, between certain parties therein mentioned. The act of April 15, 1819, s. 1, further extends the equitable... | |
 | 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,...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500, and (among other cases) the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 858 pages
...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 cognizance,...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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit), Samuel Blatchford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 640 pages
...Judiciary Act of 1789, (1 US Stat. at Large, 78,) in carrying into effect this provision, declares that the Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance,...civil nature, at common law or in Equity, where the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, &c. This Act is defective in respect... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1859 - 928 pages
...circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the State courts, "of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter...of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, etc." Concurrent jurisdiction with the district court is also given of crimes and offences cognizable... | |
 | 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...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds esclusive of costs the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 830 pages
..."shall have original cognisance concurrent with the Courts of the several States of all suits of a ciril nature at common law or in equity, where the matter...dispute exceeds exclusive of costs the sum or value of fire hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...exercised in specified cases. By the 11th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789,1 it is enacted " That the circuit courts shall have original cognizance,...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, when the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 852 pages
...eleventh section of the Judiciary Act it is also provided that the Circuit Courts shall have exclusive cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several...the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.f Complainant... | |
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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,... 
