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Pelatiah

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Pelatiah (pĕl'ətī`ə), in the Bible.

1 Zerubbabel's grandson.

2 Simeonite captain.

3 Signer of the Covenant.



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Pelatiah Webster of Philadelphia reflected common understanding when, in 1780, he wrote: The nature of a Tender-Act is no more or less than establishing by law the standard value of money, and has the same use with respect to the currency, that the legal standard pound, bushel, yard, or gallon has to these goods, the quantities of which are usually ascertained by those weights and measures.
JOSEPH HAMBURGER, the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University at the time of his death in 1997, was one of America's most accomplished scholars of nineteenth-century British political thought.
concurring) (relying on Blackstone for proposition that corporate charter granted by government includes implied promise not to grant another identical franchise which would prejudice the grant); Pelatiah Webster, An Essay on Credit in which the Doctrine of Banks is Considered and Some Remarks Are Made on the Present State of the Bank of North America (Feb.
 
 
 
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