| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - By the judiciary act of 1789 it was provided that 'the circuit courts 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 costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners; of an alien is a party, or the suit i
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