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.
Visual masking is a reduction in the detectability of a brief (less than 100ms) visual stimulus (the test stimulus) by the presentation of a second stimulus (the masking stimulus).The term was introduced in 1925 by the French psychologist Henri Pieron. Lleras, A., & Moore, C. M. (2003). 2  When the target becomes the mask: Using apparent motion to isolate the object-level component of object substitution masking: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Vol 29(1) Feb 2003, 106-120.