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Subject: Legal Definition of Harassment
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For those interested, I pulled the legal wording from my Black's law
dictionary.
 
Harassment:
 
Used in variety of legal contexts to describe words gestures and
actions which tend to annoy, alarm and abuse (verbally) another
person.  A person commits a petty misdemeanor if, with purpose to
harass another, he: (1) makes a telephone call without purpose of
legitimate communications; or (2) insults, taunts or challenges
another in a manner likely to provoke violent or disorderly response;
or (3) makes repeated communications anonymously or at extremely
inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language; or (4) subjects
another to an offensive touching; or (5) engages in any other course
of alarming conduct serving no legitimate purpose of the actor.  Model
Penal Code, 250.4.
 
(Blacks Law Dictionary 5th Edition)

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