1626 W. Pinke tr. J. Cameron Exam. Plausible Appearances xiv. 54 Not by a resolution of their doubts, by stating of their questions, by a rationall decision of their controversies.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. x. 90 An excellent Chirurgeon he was at joynting of a broken soul, and at stating of a doubtfull conscience.

1652 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1904) I. 519 W. R. had done nothing in order to y^e stating of the accounts.

1780 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 333 When any new propositions are made without their explanations, their qualifications, and a full stating of their grounds.

1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 49 Compound Proportion teaches how to resolve such questions as require two or more statings by Simple Proportion.

1817 Times 18 Apr. 2/3 The stating of these systematic names will tend to make the inhabitants of those provinces the better understand what measures and weights are meant by the new names.

1879 A. Bain Educ. as Sci. in Cycl. Sci. I. 539 The most searching equivalence of verbal forms is Obversion, or the stating of a fact from its other side.

1904 W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Oct. 243 The Province of a magistrate might be the stating of law in Rome, or the superintendence of a great road.

1967 P. H. Nowell-Smith in W. H. Capitan & D. D. Merrill Art, Mind, & Relig. 16 We cannot now attribute the infelicity to the stating rather than to what is stated.

2007 B. Sharma Handbk. Curriculum Reforms Teaching Methods xv. 310 The stating of precise objectives is the indispensable first step in undertaking to teach a class.

1649 J. Cleveland Hue & Cry Sir John Presbyter (single sheet) This stating Prelacy; the Classick Rout, That spake it often, ere they spake it out.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. vi. iii. 437 A percipient witness..will not..have made himself known to the deposing witness, unless by having made himself an extrajudicially narrating, reporting, or stating witness.

1871 J. Wright First Latin Steps xxii. 140 Sometimes we wish to make a supposition as if it were a statement;..and for this purpose we avail ourselves of the ‘stating’ force of the Indicative mood.

1915 C. N. Kendall How to teach Fund. Subj. ii. 116 They may learn to discover first the stating word. After they are fairly proficient in this, they may be taught to place who or what before the verb.

1954 I. Bernstein Arbitration of Wages ii. 28 It would be considered in the form in which the stating party had expressed it.

2004 J. L. Mey Pragmatics (ed. 2) v. 106 Other verbs were seen as merely describing situations; they were used to produce true or false ‘statements’ about those situations. Such ‘stating’ verbs were called by Austin..‘constatives’.

1787 J. Mitford Treat. Pleadings Suits Chancery (ed. 2) 42 The third part contains the case of the plaintiffs, and is commonly called the stating part of the bill.

1829 H. Grant Pract. High Court Chancery (ed. 2) I. lxxi. 443 As to the form of a petition for a supersedeas, it must, like all other petitions, in the stating part, consist of the innumberable circumstances that may attach to the case.

1890 Harvard Law Rev. 4 28 The stating part of the bill cannot be enlarged by the terms of the prayer for relief.

1960 Virginia Law Rev. 46 1650 Where the plaintiff's case depends in whole or in part on documents, they should be described according to their legal effect in the stating part of the plaintiff's bill.

2002 L. L. Tepley et al. Cases, Text, & Probl. on Civil Procedure vi. 546 Typically, bills in equity consisted of three parts: (1) the stating part (stating the grounds for relief); (2) the charging part..; (3) the interrogative part.