Jane and the money
In that time, was the money legally Jane's to take and keep the way she did? Also, what would Jane's future be?
i suppous legally the monney was hers as sharpe gave her that form/letter thingy that entitled her to all of his monney....however he said to take the monney if he died or didn't return...i'm not sure if this was in the document or if they were just his instructions so that also makes a differance to how legal it was.
morraly however....that is a different story!!
He issued a power of attorney, which was pointless.
He said that wrote it in a previous episode so that if he died, she could access his money.
1) she was legally his wife, she wouldn't NEED a PoA - as his wife, under 19th century british law, with no heirs she would be ASSUMED to be his sole beneficiary.
2) even then, he'd have written a will.
A power of attorney is ONLY so someone can act on your behalf remotely. Since she wasn't going home without him (when he wrote it) there's no sense whatsoever to him issuing such a document.
Further, a PoA can't be simply 'written' - it has to be notarized, so that even a dopey soldier would have had to have it reviewed by a notary, who would have told him all this already.
One of the most obvious deus-ex-machina plot devices ever. Made me wonder if the series hadn't started to jump the shark.