 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 726 pages
...Congress which bear on the case : First. The Judiciary Act of 1789, which thus enacts: "SECTION 11. The Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance,...nature, at common law or in equity, where . . . the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State. "SECTION... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1869 - 954 pages
...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...costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars," etc. Concurrent jurisdiction with the district court is also given of crimes and offences cognizable... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 840 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...Minott, 63 ; 2 Tidd's Practice, 945 ; Opinion of the court. Circuit Courts, under the Judiciary Act, have original cognizance, concurrent, with the courts...of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, in the cases described in the llth section of that act.* Cases of Federal cognizance, commenced in... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 438 pages
...president's signature on March 3d : Be ti, enacted, etc., That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500, and arising under the constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall... | |
 | Law - 1888 - 556 pages
...March 3, 1875, § 1 (Sup. Rev. Stat. 173); provides •• that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds," etc., " * * * arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made," etc.;... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - Public lands - 1870 - 420 pages
...statute ; and the llth section of the judiciary act of September 24, 1769, invests it with power to take original cognizance concurrent with the, courts of...a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where tho matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of $.500, &c., and tho suit is between a citizen of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 868 pages
...Judiciary Act, a section which defines the original jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts,* enacts: "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. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 636 pages
...Company. The eleventh section defines the jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts and provides as follows : " The Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance,...petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit is hetween a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State ; and shall... | |
 | Jasper Yeates, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 636 pages
...This will appear pretty plain from a perusal of the llth section of the act, where it is enacted, that the Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, of a certain value, where the United States are plaintiffs, or where an alien is a party, &c. This... | |
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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,... 
