POL PLOWDEN, FRANCIS. A Treatise upon the Law of Usury and Annuities. 8vo. London. 1797. Lord Kenyon is reported to have said that Francis Plowden's Treatise on Usury, was the first English law book that advocated dishonesty. No. 17, L. M. 163. . Points of Law and Equity, selected for the infor- formation, caution, and direction of persons concerned in Trade and Commerce. 8vo. London. 1792. . Livesligration of the Native Rights of British sub- jecls. 8vo. London. 1785. The Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Civil and Ecclesiastical. 8vo. London. 1802. POINDEXTER, GEORGE. The Revised Code of the Laws of Mississippi, in which are comprised all such acts of the General Assembly, of a public nature, as were in force at the end of the year 1823 ; published according to an Act of the General Assem- bly. 8vo. Natchez. 1824. POINTS in Law and Equity, selected for the information, caution, and direction of all persons concerned in Trade and Commerce, with reference to the Statutes, Reports, and other authorities upon which they are founded. 8vo. London. 1792. POLICE. A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropo- lis ; also an Account of the Courts of Justice and Prisons of London. 8vo. London. 1829. POLLEXFEN, SIR HENRY. The Arguments and Reports in the King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, with some Decrees in Chancery upon Limitations of Trust or Terms for Years, from the 22d to the 36th Car. II. fol. London. 1702. From the Preface of these Reports we learn that " Pollexfen, during the course of his practice, argued the most considerable cases at law that happened in the courts of Westminster, and the following book con- sists for the most part, of the remains of his labors in that kind ; as also, of some resolutions in the Court of Chancery, upon limitations of trusts of terms in chattels real ; all which were by his order fairly writ- ten in one book, and afterwards, corrected with his own hand." There is some confusion in the pagination of the volume, and though a large share 576
