...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...

...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...

...consist only of a judge of the Supreme Court.a *302 *These circuit courts, thus organized, are vested with original cognizance, concurrent with the courts...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,...

...enacted by the llth section of the judiciary act of Sept. 24, 1789, that the circuit courts shall have original cognizance concurrent with the courts of...of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit is between...

...that court sits also as District Judge of that District. The Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...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...

...without reasonable notice to the adverse party. Act of March 2, 1793, see. 5. The circuit courts have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars exclusive of costs, and tlie United States are plaintiffs, or an alien is a party,...

...originally brought therein, whose cognizance, as defined by law, is intended to be limited to cases " where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars," and secondly, the time and attention of this court, whose appellate jurisdiction in such like cases,...

...that court sits also as District Judge of that District. The Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...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...

...courts are vested with equity jurisdiction in certain cases. The judiciary act of 1789, s. 11, gives original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, between certain parties therein mentioned. The act of April 15, 1819, s. 1, further extends the equitable...

...original jurisdiction, in some cases exclusive, in others concurrent only, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds a certain defined sum, and an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where...