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state·ment n1 a: an official or formal report or declarationa statement of policyb: an oral or written assertion (as by a witness) or conduct intended as an assertion see also hearsay, prior consistent statement, prior inconsistent statement2: a financial record or accounting
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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account, affidavit, affirmation, announcement, assertion, asseveration, averment, avowal, claim, comment, declaration, deposition, detailed account, dictum, enumeration, exclamation, explanation, exposition, manifesto, narrative, observation, prepared announcement, prepared text, pronouncement, recapitulation, recital, recitation, remark, report, story, summary, testimony, utterance
associated concepts: statement of claim, statement of defense, statement of particulars
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account (evaluation), acknowledgment (avowal), admission (disclosure), affidavit, affirmation, allegation, amount (sum), assertion, attestation, avowal, bill (invoice), budget, caption, census, certification (attested copy), claim (assertion), comment, confession, declaration, dictum, disclosure (something disclosed), dispatch (message), dun, expression (comment), invoice (bill), issuance, ledger, mention (reference), note (brief comment), notice (announcement), notification, observation, postulate, proclamation, profession (declaration), pronouncement, prospectus, publication (disclosure), recital, remark, rendition (explication), report (detailed account), resolution (formal statement), speech, suggestion, testimony, title (division)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.A written or verbal expression of some fact or belief; an assertion or allegation made by a witness. See also opening statement, prior inconsistent statement
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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n. A declaration of fact or an allegation by a witness; a piece of sworn testimony.See also closing statement, evidence, opening statement.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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