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A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym…

Question
Consider the phrase "had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family." Which phrase has similar meaning?

Responses

had taken land back from neighbors who didn't legally own it
had taken land back from neighbors who didn't legally own it

had an illegal fight
had an illegal fight

had removed neighbors from their land
had removed neighbors from their land

had taken back land from neighbors who had unlawfully obtained it