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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 "the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts." The word acquiesce comes from a Latin word meaning "to rest." What is the meaning of the word acquiesced?
Responses

fought on
fought on

slept deeply
slept deeply

stopped fighting
stopped fighting

stopped fighting