Even before the reform of the Brazilian Arbitration Act, based on the concept of judgment under the Code of Civil Procedure and the will of the parties, there was no impediment to the rendering of a partial award, understood as "an act of the arbitrators that, definitively (…), resolves part of the dispute, based on the existence or not of the substantive right alleged by the parties or on the absence of the admissibility requirements of the judicial relief sought":