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California Code Of Civil Procedure Section 613

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When the case is finally submitted to the jury, they may
decide in Court or retire for deliberation; if they retire, they must
be kept together, in some convenient place, under charge of an
officer, until at least three-fourths of them agree upon a verdict or
are discharged by the Court.  Unless by order of the Court, the
officer having them under his charge must not suffer any
communication to be made to them, or make any himself, except to ask
them if they or three-fourths of them are agreed upon a verdict, and
he must not, before their verdict is rendered, communicate to any
person the state of their deliberations, or the verdict agreed upon.

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