 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 560 pages
...the district. They are invested with orignal cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the severtl 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, and the United States are plaintiffs, or an alien is a party,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...actions at law against citizens of the United States, is by jury. The Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of 5(10 dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit... | |
 | 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, § 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
...court is held. Ib. 13. The provision of the ttth section of the act of Congress of 24 Sept., 1789, " that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature," &c., means that where a citizen of the state can sue in the state courts another citizen or resident,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...atterWlînreifu0 States, of a" suits of a civ'1 nature at common law or in equity, where ute exceeds the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five ve hundred hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or dollars. e an... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1879 - 756 pages
...suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, now pending, or hereafter brought in any state court, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars ... in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different states . . . either party may... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1883 - 926 pages
...any suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, now pending or hereafter brought in any state court, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, * * * in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different states, * * * either 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,... 
