HARFORD COUNTY. 2927

1922, chs. 140 and 223, sec. 159L.

176. Any action taken or order passed by said court in relation to any
judgment rendered by it, if taken or passed within thirty days after the
entry of such judgment, or upon a motion or application made to it within
said thirty days, shall have the same effect and force as it would have had
under the practice heretofore existing in said court, if taken or passed dur-
ing the term, or upon a motion or application made during the term at
which said judgment was entered, and no more; but any such action taken
or order passed after the expiration of thirty days from the entry of any
judgment (unless upon a motion or application made within that time)
shall have the same effect and force as it would have had under such pre-
vious practice, if taken or passed after the expiration of said term, and
no more; and the said court shall have, for a period of thirty days after
the doing of any act or thing in any cause before it, the same revisory power
and control over such act or thing which, under the practice heretofore
existing, they would have had over the same during the term at which it
was done, and no more; and, after thirty days from the doing of any such
act or thing, the said court shall have the same revisory power and con-
trol thereover, which, under such previous practice, they would have had
after the expiration of the term at which said act or thing was done, and
no more.

1922, chs. 140 and 223, sec. 159M.

177. In all cases where the pre-existing laws direct or require that any
act or thing shall be done in or by said court during the same term at
which some other act or thing may be done or happen, such first men-
tioned act or thing shall hereafter be done within thirty days after the
doing or happening of said last mentioned act or thing.

JUVENILE COURT.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 160.

178. For the purpose of this Act, the words "dependent child" and
"neglected child" shall be construed as meaning any male child living in
Harford County, and being under the age of twenty years, or any female
child living in said County, being under the age of eighteen years, who
for any cause is destitute, homeless or abandoned, or dependent upon the
public for support, or has not fit and proper parental care or guardian-
ship, or who is feeble-minded or otherwise mentally deficient, or who
habitually begs for alms, or is found living with any vicious or depraved
person, or has a home, which, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity
on the part of its parent or parents, guardian or other persons having
charge of it, is an unfit place for such a child.

The term "delinquent child" shall be construed as meaning any male
of female child living in Harford County under the ages above specified,
and who, while under age, may violate any criminal law of the State, or
is incorrigible, or knowingly associates with thieves, vicious and depraved