Legal Definition and Related Resources of Utility

In patent law, it means the object of the patent is capable of performing some beneficial function claimed for it. See Dart Industries Inc. v DuPont Nemours and Co.,(D. C.Ill.) 348 F.Supp. 1338.

The measure of the welfare or satisfaction of an investor or person.

(Public service), noun

• public business
• public company
• public corporation
• public industry

(Usefulness), noun

• adequacy
• advantage
• advantageousness
• applicability
• avail
• benefit
• convenience
• efficacy
• employability
• fruitfulness
• function
• helpfulness
• practicality
• productiveness
• productivity
• profit
• profitability
• service
• serviceability
• suitability
• usability
• use
• value foreign phrases: Omne magnum exemplum habet aliquid exiniquo
• quodpublica utilitate compensatur
• Every great example has some unfairness
• which is compensated by the public utility

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Utility in Historical Law

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Marginal Utility in the Economic Activity

An introductory concept of Marginal Utility may be: the extra utility, or enjoyment, a person receives from the consumption of one additional unit of a goo

Concept of Utility in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Utility: Practical usefulness, as opposed to frivolity.

Concept of Utility in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Utility: Practical usefulness, as opposed to frivolity.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Utility

(You may find utility at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

late 14c., “fact of being useful,” from Old French utilite “usefulness” (13c., Modern French + utilité), earlier utilitet (12c.), from Latin utilitatem (nominative utilitas) “usefulness, serviceableness, profit,” from utilis “usable,” from uti “make use of, profit by, take advantage of” (see use (verb)). Meaning “a useful thing” is from late 15c. As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.

What is the meaning of Utility?

A definition of Utility is provided here: Value- or want-satisfying ability that is added to products by organizations because the products are made more useful or accessible to consumers.