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.
...the typical masking experiment does not necessarily provide a measure of perceptual fusion. In a fusion experiment, on the other hand, listeners are asked whether they can or cannot hear the target in the mixture or, even better, to rate how clearly they can hear the target there.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.