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After throwing the last Agilolfing Duke, Tasilo III off his throne in 788 in the lawsuit (to use a current term, show trial) held at the assembly at Ingelheim, Charlemagne integrated the until then independent Bavarian Dukedom into his empire. Several of the Bavarian (secular and church) dignitaries, including Arn, bishop of Salzburg and later a good friend of Alcuin, most probably took sides with the Frank ruler as early as during the reign of Tasilo, and helped him to legitimate the dethronement of the prince. In the years directly following the dethronement, between 788 and 790, it was at the instruction of Charlemagne that the great winner of the Carolingian takeover, Bishop Arn (785-821), who used to enjoy Tasilo's confidence for a long time, caused to write the notice on the donations to the Bishopric of Salzburg, Notitia Arnonis, which was approved by the Frankish ruler, to ensure the benefices of his diocese. The Bishopric of Salzburg was raised to Archbishopric in 798, and it was at that time that Arn received the pallium from Pope Leo III; however, the bishops now subjected to him apparently felt aversion to this decision adopted by Charlemagne and implemented by the Pope. So the Archbishop had to prove the origin and legality of the estates obtained, which resulted in the work entitled Breves Notitiae drafted between 798 and 800. It can be established that in spite of Breves Notitiae and Notitia Arnonis overlapping each other in certain points, none of the records served as the prefiguration of the other, so both documents add specific data to our knowledge on the economic and estate conditions of the age. "Alle mittelalterliche Forschung ist Philologie" writes Hermann Heimpel in his foreword to Heinz Quirin's handbook. The objective of the present writing primarily concerns legal history; however, in its methodology, investigation in medieval Latin philology dominates. As in terms of genres, both Notitia Arnonis and Breves Notitiae are a peculiar mixture of charters and historic narratives on the early period of Salzburg, so in the assessment of their linguistic/ stylistic features the impacts of both the usage of charters and Carolingian Latinity need to be taken into account. In this paper the following aspects will be examined--s primarily in the texts of the aforesaid estate registers of Salzburg, and, as a matter of fact, giving an overview of the (Bavarian) sources of the period: Confirmation of donations to the Church in written form and by witnesses. (I.) The relation between carta and notitia; similarities and differences in form and content. (II.) Key linguistic features of the estate registers of Salzburg; their relation to usage of charters. (III.) In-depth examination of a few linguistic peculiarities that occur in the estate register. (IV.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]