Definition of utility: by utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness.

Principles on which utility is based: An action then may be said to be conformable to the principle of utility when the tendency it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any it has to diminish it.

The way in which utility can affect policies: A measure of government may be said to be conformable to or dictated by the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it.