...eleventh section, in which is found the clause upon which the case turned: "The Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the. several States, of all suits "fa civil nature, at common law or in equity, when the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs,...

...offences above the description aforesaid." By section 11 it is enacted, " that the circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, &c. ; and shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority...

...—302, 303. They have original cognizance, concurrent with the State courts/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 > <--...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 courts...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...

...1875, § 1 (Sup. Rev. Stat. 173); provides •• that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds," etc., " * * * arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made," etc.;...

...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...

...cases. By the 11th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 it is enacted " That the circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of aU suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, when the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive...