The right to dower could be barred by the wife before marriage accepting a jointure (a life estate in specified lands) in lieu of dower, or by the complicated uses to bar dower invented in the 18th century.
Masking (personality) Masking (Personality Theory) - Masking is a process in which an individual changes or masks his or her natural personality to conform to social pressures, abuse, and or harassment.
Masking and Perceptual Coding. Introduction. Most of the time our world presents us with a multitude of sounds simultaneously. We automatically accomplish the task of distinguishing each of the sounds and attending to the ones of greatest importance.asking, then, is the loss of individuality of the neural consequences of the target sound, because there is no way of segregating it from the effects of the louder tone (Bregman 1990, p. 392). Non-Simultaneous Masking. The ASA definition of masking does not address non-simultaneous masking.