The code of the Visigoths presents no trace whatever of the first of these systems, and scarcely any of the second; the third immensely predominates. There was no _mallum_, no _placitum_, no assemblies of free men in the provinces; no enactment ordains, or even refers to them. Scarcely does there exist any indication of the power of the patron over his client, of the landowner over the inhabitants of his domains. The law which I quoted in my last lecture, with reference to slaves, proves that, even in their case, the jurisdiction belonged to the royal judge of the district. {238} Various Kinds Of Magistrates. The _Forum judicum_ mentions a large number of local magistrates who were invested with the power of administering affairs and distributing justice. "As there is a great variety in the means of remedying evils and terminating affairs, let the duke, count, vicar, conservator of the peace (_pacis assertor_), _tinfadus, millenarius, quingentenarius, centenarius, decanus, defensor, numerarius_, and those who are sent to any place by order of the king, and those who are accepted as judges by the agreement of the litigant parties,-- let all persons, in fine, of whatever order they may be, who are regularly invested with power to judge, and each person in such proportion as he has received power to judge, equally obtain from the law the name of judges, in order that, having received the right to judge, the duties as well as the advantages connected with that right may devolve upon them."