To take away all remedy for the enforcement of a right is to take away the right itself.

Explanation

(English-origin maxim.) Destroying the remedy is destroying the right itself — a government that removes all means of enforcement has effectively repealed the right, whatever it claims in words.

Where this applies

• A state that eliminates all courts where a citizen could challenge an unlawful tax has effectively eliminated the citizen's right to be free from unlawful taxation.
• A legislature that removes every procedure for appealing a license revocation has effectively destroyed the right to hold that license.
• If a government strips all legal mechanisms for enforcing a property right, the property right itself ceases to exist in any meaningful sense.