[Smokin' Joe]

What does it matter when you had it if you no longer have it in an operative form?

Encumbered or not, the right remains. All the more reason to strip it of the infringements.

Even a ban by fiat of an unalienable right does not take the right away, it just makes the practice thereof more difficult.

[vladimir998]

In the UK the rights do not remain. They disappeared long ago.