 | George Watterston - Washington (D.C.) - 1842 - 252 pages
...CIRCUIT COURT. The Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance of all suits of a civil nature at common law, or in equity, where the matter...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500, and the United States are the plaintiffs or petitioner, or an alien is a party, or the suit is... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...original cognisance, con current with the courts of the severa states, of all suits of a civil nature a common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute...of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, between certain par ties therein mentioned. And the ac April 15, 1819, ยง 1, provides, " Tha the circuit... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 442 pages
...have concurrent jurisdiction with the District Courts. They have original cognizance, concurrently with the courts of the several states, of all suits...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds a certain sum, and the United States are plaintiffs ; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 676 pages
...by the Marshal. The llth section of the judiciary act of 1789, (Ingersoll's Digest, 370,) says : " The Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance,...matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners ; or an alien is... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...have concurrent jurisdiction with the District Courts. They have original cognizance, concurrently with the courts of the several states, of all suits...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds a certain sum, and the United States are plaintiffs ; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between... | |
 | H. G. O. COLBY - Civil procedure - 1848 - 550 pages
...c. 71. It has no original jurisdiction in admiralty cases. Bee's R. 11; 1 Mason, 431. These Courts " have original cognizance, concurrent with the Courts...matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners ; or an alien is a party... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1850 - 416 pages
...parties. By the 1lth section of the judiciary act (1 LUS, p. 78, Lit. and Bred.) it is provided that the Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law, and in equity, where the matters in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sunr^or... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...only of a judge of the Supreme Court.a *302 *These circuit courts, thus organized, are vested with original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, and the United States are plaintiff's, or an alien is a party,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars exclusive of costs, and tlie 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,... 
