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What is a dispossession?

What is a dispossession? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of dispossessing someone of something.
  2. The casting out of an evil spirit that has possessed someone; exorcism.
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This arose from government policy position that betterment dispossession did not fulfil the criteria of the Restitution of Land rights Act.
The background to this whole debate is the history of colonial and apartheid era land dispossession.
The dispossession of the peasantry gave landlords a golden opportunity to amalgamate small plots into large farms.
Members of the middle or lower classes are acutely aware of the mechanisms of dispossession and exploitation.
There is the structural violence of coerced theft and dispossession imposed by landlords.
So the freedom of many white Americans depended on the dispossession of this other people.

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