Divestiture

n.

1.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Noun	1.	divestiture - an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior; "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly"
	2.	divestiture - the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division

court order, deprive, divest, jurisprudence, law, strip