statement
    n 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, statement]
    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, statement]
    6: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a
       computer program [syn: instruction, command, statement,
       program line]
    7: a document showing credits and debits [syn: statement,
       financial statement]

Statement \State"ment\ (st[=a]t"ment), n.
   1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or on
      paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his
      case.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of
      facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. "Admirable
      perspicuity of statement." --Brougham.
      [1913 Webster]

statement

    A single instruction in a computer program
   written in a procedural language.  Typical examples are an
   assignment statement, an if statement (conditional), a
   loop statement ("while", "for", "repeat", "until", etc.), a
   procedure call, a procedure exit, function return
   statement, switch statement or goto statement.

   In many languages, one or more simple statements can be
   executed sequentially as a compound statement,
   e.g. bracketed between "begin" and "end" or "" and "" which
   can then appear in place of a simple statement in an "if" or
   loop.

   Each statement in a high-level language will typically be
   translated into several machine code instructions by a
   compiler or, alternatively, executed by an interpreter.

   (2009-10-23)

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 a statement 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.