1793 Bill Punishment of Insolvent Debtors 23 A full statement of his or her affairs, containing schedules of all his or her estate and effects,..and debts due to him or her, both as at the time of the commencement of such debtor's imprisonment in execution, and at the time of making up such statement of affairs.

1832 New Monthly Mag. 36 163/2 At the annual meeting of the proprietors, &c. of this Institution, the statement of affairs was somewhat more satisfactory than on late occasions.

1895 Rep. Tax Cases (1907) III. 456 Every man and every company having foreign or colonial investments..takes note of it [sc. interest arising] and enters it in any statement of affairs which may require to be made up.

1928 R. G. Williams Elem. Bk.-keeping xiv. 240 The preparation of the statement of affairs may possibly depend upon information which is not supplied by the books of account.

1981 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 17/6 In the statement of affairs presented at the creditors' meeting £31,000 of client account balances appeared as part of the net assets of the company.

2003 M. Tyagi & A. Kumar Company Law xvi. 367 The directors, manager and secretary of the company shall submit a statement of affairs to the official liquidator in the prescribed form and verified by an affidavit.

1827 Niles' Weekly Reg. 8 Sept. 30/1 Have I not well said..that the manufacturers were a combining, club-meeting,..complaining, statement-making, worrying, persevereing class of men?

1935 Accounting Rev. 10 221/2 Spreading the gospel of adequate, and satisfactory, financial reporting and statement making.

1964 Arlington Daily News Texan 24 Apr. 1/5 After a statement-taking session that lasted until 4 a.m. Thursday and a roundup of stolen goods that went on all day Thursday.

1970 R. V. Jamison Fortran IV Programming ix. 172 Often errors creep in because of negligence: lack of care in following the rules of statement writing, in punching the statements on cards, in punching the data cards that the program will process.

1988 R. M. Lemos Metaphys. Investig. iv.103 The categories of statements and statement making require one another, so that neither is reducible to the other.

1995 A. Cretney & G. Davis Punishing Violence vi. 129 The process of statement-taking can be seen as the first step in the victim's progressive alienation from his or her ‘story’ by the processes of the law.

2007 S. Madsen Pract. Skills Police Community Support Officers ix. 122 It is..of paramount importance the statement is completed correctly, contains the relevant information in chronological order, is legible and follows the rules of statement writing.

2013 Daily Tel. 2 Jan. 25/3 Moon boots are more statement-making—and Bogner's navy Alpe d'Huez Moon Boots..make the right kind.

1842 Foreign Q. Rev. July 477 Wanting is the excellent Horace Walpole..in that good memory which Swift has pronounced indispensable to a certain class of statement-makers.

1894 Second Ann. Meeting, Pacific Coast Gas Assoc. in Amer. Gas Light Jrnl. 18 June 893/2 We have districted the city, and have good statement-takers, men whom we have taken from the shop and made office men of.

1917 Mod. Methods May 189/2 When the time limit arrives..the statement writer goes down the row of flags sticking up on that particular date, making out statement for each account affected.

1950 Accounting Rev. 25 87/2 Combining..average advance and attendant charge, gives the statement reader valuable information concerning the relative cost of obtaining assets from the various equities.

1981 Mountain Democrat-Times (Placerville, Ca.) 17 July a2/1 When reporting income of a business, the statement filer must list every person from whom the business received payments of $10,000 or greater.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 34/2 After months of preliminary research by statement-takers and investigators, a community gathers in a local hall to hear ‘the truth’ about past horrors.

2016 M. Munro in H. Croall et al. Crime, Justice & Society Scotl. x. 153 The most common reasons for Scottish statement makers to return the statement was not to influence the sentence.., but a desire to express their feelings about what had happened.

1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas iv. i. 371 All this prior to any statement and prior also to the expressive or ‘conceptual’ mode of apprehension which emerges for the first time with the statement-form, and clings to all forms and contents (Materien) as significant expression.

1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. v. 95 Instead of being statement-forms the postulates of the theory appear to be statements.

2004 Synthese 141 434 What is first required, with the subjunctive, is some statement form which can express such a causal relation.

1931 Tipton (Indiana) Daily Tribune 2 Nov. 4/6 The people cannot be statemented out of their fear psychology.

1965 D. J. Aylott in A. Wilson Marketing Industr. Products xi. 134 The goods are advised, delivered, invoiced and statemented.

1979 Mag. Bank Admin. June 50/1 This audit will consist of the accounts statemented as of month-end.

1985 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Oct. 12/5 A statement..announcing ‘Service charges will be statemented the 22 of each month’.

1984 Times Educ. Suppl. 30 Mar. 25/3 L.e.a.s argue against ‘statementing’ children with moderate learning difficulties.

1994 I. Whitney et al. in P. K. Smith & S. Sharp School Bullying ix. 236 Whether or not these children were statemented was dependent on differing school philosophies and the severity of the child's needs.

1998 Daily Tel. 11 Mar. 16/1 Our local comprehensive says our son's dyslexia is not severe enough for him to be ‘statemented’.

2005 Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 23/2 It was five years before one grandson was ‘statemented’ by the local education authority and then the remedial assistance he was offered was useless.