"So essential did I consider an index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a book without an index of the privilege of copyright, and, moreover, to subject him for his offense to a pecuniary penalty."
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John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, Lives of the Chief Justices of England (1874), Preface to Volume III.
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