Berton
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. bertana.] In English law. That part of a great country farm where the barns, stables, and other inferior offices stand, and wherein cattle are foddered, and other country business managed.
Cowell.
In Devonshire, according to Cowell, they called a great farm a berton; a small farm a living.
See Barton.
Bertonarii.
Farmers or tenants of bertons, who seem to have been tenants at will.
Cowell. Blount.