 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 648 pages
...1789, 1 Stat. at L. 78, which gives to this court original cognizance of all suits of a civil nature in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive...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. The... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 854 pages
...and the eleventh defines their powers, and confers their jurisdiction. The latter declares that they shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiff's, or petitioner, or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the Slate wftere... | |
 | William Wait - Civil procedure - 1872 - 950 pages
...1. Original jurisdiction. The circuit courts have been vested by statute with original jurisdiction, concurrent with the courts of the several States,...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500 and the United States are plaintiffs, or an alien is a party, and the suit is between a citizen... | |
 | William A. Shinn - Bankruptcy - 1873 - 546 pages
...circuit courts, and we find by the seventeenth section of that act that such courts are vested with original cognizance concurrent with the courts of...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds a certain sum stated, and the United States are plaintiff or petitioner, or an alien is a party, or... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - District courts - 1874 - 590 pages
...September 24th, 17&9, commonly called the Judiciary Act, declared that the Circuit Court should have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of $500, nml the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners. This grant was undoubtedly prospective.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit court of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made,... | |
 | Charles Sidney Whitman - Copyright - 1875 - 814 pages
...State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State, the Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars. Record shows that the plaintiff was an alien, and that the defendants were citizens of the State where... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the CircuitCourts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum er value of five hundred dollars, and arising under the .constitution or laws of the United States,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 764 pages
...v. Story, 9 Pet. 632. The judiciary act of 1789 conferred upon the circuit courts authority "to take cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several...equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive [ * 106 ] *of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and * * * the suit is between a citizen... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 674 pages
...States they may exercise the ordinary admiralty jurisdiction (Act of 1845, o. 20). The circuit courts have original cognizance concurrent with the courts...States are plaintiffs or petitioners ; or an alien ia a party, or the suit is between the citizens of the State where the suit is brought, and the citizen... | |
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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,... 
