N.D. Cent. Code § 32-33-04

The writ of certiorari shall command the party to whom it is directed to certify fully to the court issuing the writ, at a specified time and place, and to annex to the writ a transcript of the record and proceedings, describing or referring to them with convenient certainty, and a statement of other matter specified in and required by the writ, that the same may be reviewed by the court, and requiring the party in the meantime to desist from further proceedings in the matter to be reviewed.