North Dakota Code § 29-17-36

Matters constituting implied bias specified
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A challenge for implied bias of a juror may be taken for all or any of the following causes, 
and for no other:
1. Consanguinity or relationship to the person alleged to be injured by the offense 
charged, or on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted, or to the defendant.
2. The relationship of guardian and ward, attorney and client, master and servant, 
landlord and tenant, or debtor and creditor, or membership in the family of the 
defendant, or of the person alleged to be injured by the offense charged, or on whose 
complaint the prosecution was instituted, or employment by either.
3. Being a party adverse to the defendant in a civil action, or having complained against 
or been accused by the defendant in a criminal prosecution.
4. Having served on the grand jury which found the indictment, or on a coroner's jury 
which inquired into the death of a person whose death is the subject of the action.
5. Having served on a trial jury which has tried another person for the offense charged.
6. Having been one of a jury formerly sworn to try the same charge, and whose verdict 
was set aside, or which was discharged without a verdict, after the cause was 
submitted to it.
7. Having served as a juror in a civil action brought against the defendant for the act 
charged as an offense.
8. Repealed by S.L. 1975, ch. 106, § 673.
9. Having served as a member of the jury panel within two years.

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