 | 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... | |
 | 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...where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners ; or an... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1850 - 416 pages
...section of the judiciary act (1 LUS, p. 78, Lit. and Bred.) it is provided that the Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance concurrent with the...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... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...and where the district judge shall be absent, or is interested, one may sit alone. The circuit courts have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits where the matter of dispute exceeds 500 dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or an alien... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 680 pages
...Alabama of the 24th December, 1812, and its judgment was affirmed by this court. Sears v. Eastbnrn. have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law and in equity," Sec. Common law in this act must be taken in contradistinction to equity... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...1 It is enacted by the llth section of the judiciary act of Sept. 24, 1789, that the circuit courts shall have original cognizance concurrent with the...where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners,... | |
 | 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...where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of 500 dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an... | |
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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,... 
