...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...

...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...

...suit, citizens of the state of Georgia ; that in said suit there is a controversy, in which controversy the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, which is wholly between your petitioner and complainant, and said suit can be fully determined as between...

...4; 1807, c. 71. It has no original jurisdiction in admiralty cases. Bee's R. 11; 1 Mason, 431. These Courts " have original cognizance, concurrent with...matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners ; or an alien is a party...

...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 courts...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...

...judges attend ; 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...

...of the several State8t of a" suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where pute exceeds the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five five hundred hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiff's, or petitioners; or 0 ars" an alien...

...ch. 20, § 21. 2 Act of Cong. 1803, ch. 93, § 2. Court to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars.1 The Judges of the respective District Courts are required to hold, in their...

...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,...

...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...dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of 500 dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit...