When jurors are discharged or prevented from giving a verdict by reason of an accident or other cause, except when the defendant is discharged from the information or indictment during the progress of the trial or after the cause is submitted to them, the cause may be tried again at the same or another term, as the court may direct.
N.D. Cent. Code § 29-22-08
Verdict prevented - Cause retried
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