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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 dispossessed contains the prefix dis– and the base word possess. What is the meaning of the word dispossessed?
Responses
belonging to one; own
belonging to one; own
having been stripped of something owned; having something taken away
having been stripped of something owned; having something taken away
apart or away