North Dakota Code 28-14-06 – Challenges for cause – Grounds
Challenges for cause may be taken on one or more of the following grounds:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 28-14-06
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Juror: A person who is on the jury.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
1. A want of any of the qualifications prescribed by law to render a person competent as a juror; 2. Consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree to either party; 3. Standing in the relation of guardian and ward, master and servant, debtor and creditor, employer and employee, attorney and client, or principal and agent to either party, or being a member of the family of either party, or being a partner in business with either party, or surety on any bond or obligation for either party; 4. Having served as a juror or been a witness on a previous trial between the same parties for the same claim for relief; 5. Interest on the part of the juror in the event of the action, or in the main question involved in the action, except the juror’s interest as a member or citizen of a municipal corporation; 6. Having an unqualified opinion or belief as to the merits of the action founded upon knowledge of its material facts or some of them; 7. The existence of a state of mind in the juror evincing enmity against or bias for or against either party; or
8. That the juror does not understand the English language as used in the courts.