 | Eaton Sylvester Drone - 1879 - 838 pages
...copyrights.8 1 U S. Rev. St. 110, 111. The Act of March 3, 1875, 18 US St. at L. 470, provide! that " the circuit courts of the United States shall have...nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and arising under... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1879 - 790 pages
...recent act of Congress defining the jurisdiction of the circuit courts, which provides that those courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of $500, and in which there shall be a controversy between citizens... | |
 | David Rorer - 1879 - 468 pages
...I. EXTENT THEREOF. Under the national Constitution and laws, the circuit courts of the United States have original cognizance concurrent with the courts...nature at common law, or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum of five hundred dollars, in the following enumerated... | |
 | 1879 - 552 pages
...§2. In reference to the first section of this act, defining the cases of which " the Circuit Court of the United States shall have original cognizance...concurrent with the courts of the several States," Justice Bradley's decision, expressed in the case above mentioned is, that " the jurisdiction given... | |
 | 1879 - 256 pages
...circuit. The jurisdiction of this court is twofold, original and appellate. It has original jurisdiction, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at law or in equity, when the sum involved is more than $500, and the United States arc plaintiffs,... | |
 | George N Lamphere - 1880 - 320 pages
...Courts of the United States, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1875, it was provided : That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have...nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500, and arising under the Constitution... | |
 | 1887 - 1910 pages
...parties, and separate controversy. The first section of the act of third of March, 1887, provides that "the circuit courts of the United States shall have...nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, * *... | |
 | 1906 - 1122 pages
...March 3, 1877, c. 373, § 1, 24 Stat. 552 [US Comp. St. 1901, p. 508] declares: "That the Circuit Court of the United States shall have original cognizance...nature at common law, or In equity, where the matter In dispute exceeds, exclusive of Interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, * *... | |
 | 1890 - 968 pages
...above.) The first section of the jurisdiction act of 1887 begins with a description of the cases of which "the circuit courts of the United States shall have...concurrent with the courts of the several states," including cases arising under the constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States, or "in which... | |
 | 1893 - 1052 pages
...circuit courts of the United States, uses precisely the words of the act of 1887-88: "The circuit courts shall have original cognizance concurrent with the...the several states of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity," etc. The act of 1875 (18 St. p. 470) uses precisely the same language,... | |
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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,... 
