{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "entity_name": "Dawn Land Company, a Joint Venture",
  "alternate_names": [
    "Dawn Land Company",
    "Dawn Land Company (Trustee Group)"
  ],
  "counties": [
    "Leon"
  ],
  "jurisdiction": "TX",
  "charter_reference": "TX Joint Venture / Express Trustee Title Holding Group",
  "active_era": "1970s-1980s Active Grantor Era",
  "anchor_citation": "Leon County Clerk Inst. #298379989 & #298380658 (100 Combined New Mineral Severances in John Belden Survey, A-55)",
  "canonical_url": "https://dawn-land-company-jv.web.app/",
  "inquiry_desk_url": "https://dawn-land-company-jv.web.app/#inquiry",
  "primary_tracts_and_surveys": [
    "John Belden Survey, Abstract 55, Leon County, Texas (780-Acre & 713.82-Acre Parent Subdivision Tracts)",
    "Active Comstock Resources / Comstock Oil & Gas Bossier-Haynesville Corridor (Abstract 55)"
  ],
  "reservation_clauses": [
    "100% oil, gas, and mineral severance across 100 rural tract conveyances in Abstract 55 ('Grantor reserves all oil, gas, and other minerals, including ingress/egress rights')",
    "Zero-Exit-Deed status (0 mineral exit deeds)"
  ],
  "recorded_instruments_runsheet": [
    {
      "series": "Vesting Into Company",
      "category": "deed",
      "unit": "Parent Survey & Tract Vesting Into Dawn Land Company, a Joint Venture",
      "citation": "Leon County Deed Records (Prior to Leon County Clerk Inst. #298379989 & #298380658 (100 Combined New Mineral Severances in John Belden Survey, A-55))",
      "parties_and_tract": "Prior Survey Owners -> Dawn Land Company, a Joint Venture (John Belden Survey, Abstract 55, Leon County, Texas (780-Acre & 713.82-Acre Parent Subdivision Tracts))",
      "notes": "Parent conveyances vesting fee simple surface and mineral title into Dawn Land Company, a Joint Venture prior to subdivision and out-conveyance."
    },
    {
      "series": "Deed Records",
      "category": "deed",
      "unit": "John Belden Survey (A-55) Surface-Only Severance Deed",
      "citation": "Leon County Clerk Inst. #298380658",
      "parties_and_tract": "Dawn Land Company, a Joint Venture -> Alvin Lumbert (John Belden Survey, A-55)",
      "notes": "Conveys surface estate only and reserves 100% of oil, gas, and other minerals together with appurtenant ingress and egress rights."
    },
    {
      "series": "Deed Records",
      "category": "oil",
      "unit": "John Belden Survey (A-55) 780-Acre Parent Tract Severance",
      "citation": "Leon County Clerk Inst. #298379989",
      "parties_and_tract": "Dawn Land Company -> Tract Grantees (780 Ac., John Belden Survey, A-55)",
      "notes": "Located directly inside Abstract 55 where Comstock Oil & Gas LLC is actively leasing deep Bossier/Haynesville rights."
    }
  ]
}