The phrase "a document stated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to information or claims made within a specific document.
Example: "According to the report, a document stated that the project would be completed by the end of the year."
Alternatives: "the document indicated" or "the document asserted".
He bribed the police to give him a document stating, falsely, that he had lost his identity card.
In 1989, it issued a document stating that the practice of Eastern traditions like yoga "can degenerate into a cult of the body".
"During the last sitting of parliament I signed a document stating my intention to second a bill for marriage equality," she said.
Prosecutors filed a document stating that the five middle-level accounting executives, led by Emery Harris, a former assistant controller, were cooperating in the government's case.
We signed a document stating that the investments in Old Monk... were Mills's.' Meanwhile, KMPG had come to the same conclusion.
Today OCR released a document stating its views which it has sent to ministers for consideration when drawing up the white paper.
After a meeting of a parliamentary committee in early July, the government issued a document stating that while urbanization "is the only path to modernization," it must be planned better.
The AIGCP says its members have signed a document stating that they won't participate in the Tour of Beijing from Oct. 5-9 if the ban, due to be introduced "progressively" by the UCI, is enforced.
Then they said he might be released if he could persuade Ms. Lu to sign a document stating he was in charge of Beijing Fake Cultural Development, the company registered under Ms. Lu's name.
Mr. Khater said that when he arrived at the scene, the president's chief of staff, Refaa al-Tahtawi, displayed guns, knives and other implements along with a document stating that the Islamists had confiscated the weapons from the captives.
