Statement : (noun)
1: a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral
or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc;
"according to his statement he was in London on that
day"
2: a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is
true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was
true" [syn: argument]
3: (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial
statement of the sonata"
4: a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who
you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for
attention"
5: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn:
affirmation, assertion]
6: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a
computer program [syn: instruction, command, program
line]
7: a document showing credits and debits [syn: financial
statement]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Statement : \State"ment\, n.
1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in
paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his
case.
2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of
facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. ``Admirable
perspicuity of statement!'' --Brougham.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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STATEMENT, pleading and in practice. In the courts of Pennsylvania, by the
act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice, passed
March 21, 1806, 4 Smith's Laws of Penn. 828, it is enacted, "that in all
cases where a suit may be brought in any court of record for the recovery of
any debt founded on a verbal promise, book account, note, bond, penal or
single bill, or all or any of them, and which from the amount thereof may
not be cognizable before a justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the
plaintiff, either by himself, his agent or attorney, to file in the office
of the prothonotary aStatement : of his, her or their demand, on or before
the third day of the term to which the process issued is returnable,
particularly specifying the date of the promise, book account, note, bond,
penal or single bill or all or any of them, on which the demand is founded,
and the whole amount which he, she, or they believe is justly due to him,
her or them from the defendant."
2. This statement stands in the place of a declaration, and is not
restricted to any particular form; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 406; it is an
immethodical declaration, stating in substance the time of the contract, the
sum, and on what founded, with (what is an important principle in a
statement, 6 Serg. & Rawle, 21,) a certificate of the belief of the
plaintiff or his agent, of what is really due. Serg. & Rawle, 28. See 6
Serg. & Rawle, 53; 8 Serg. & Rawle, 567; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 537; 2 Browne's R.
40; 8 Serg. & R. 316.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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