The phrase "a document that says" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific document that contains information or statements about a particular subject.
Example: "I need to review a document that says the terms of our agreement before we proceed."
Alternatives: "a paper that states" or "a file that indicates".
"For a lot of relatives it's a document that says, 'This is what she went through, and look where she is now,' " Dr. Jones said.
I reached for the course schedule, only to realize I was about to kill something with a document that says you won't kill anything.
"I don't have a document that says A, B, C, D, E, Errol Flynn was a Nazi agent," he said in an interview with The New York Times the year the biography was published.
But Fales' lawyer, James W. Bergenn, placed in the court file a document that says the home in question is the four-bedroom colonial at 45 Sailors Lane built for Mr. Ganim and his wife, Jennifer, in 1999.
"The Mexican government is being criticized for how a program is being run and it produces a document that says things are basically fine and complaining about how the program was run on the U.S. side".
We pressed on, dissecting the symbolically loaded dream in which the narrator receives a document that says, "Keep This Nigger Boy Running," and the grandfather's advice on how to deal with white people: "Overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction".
Patricia Kennealy Morrison and Jim Morrison took part in a Celtic handfasting marriage ceremony in 1970 and signed a document that said they were married.
Ms. Cruz read from a document that said, "Per diem will be paid when the travel period exceeds 10 hours in the same calendar day".
Holding a document that, say, Abraham Lincoln spent his time writing and signing is as close as you will get to shaking his hand.
This week, the British government released a document that said it had evidence connecting the attacks to Mr. bin Laden's organization, Al Qaeda.
