AMPLIUS. - The operative part of the decisions of the S. Congregations (v. CONGREGAZIONI ROMANE, SACRE; CURIA ROMANA) is generally drafted in brief formulas: affirmative (“yes”), negative (“no”), and the like, referring to the questions previously formulated and reproduced in the decision itself.
Sometimes the clause et amplius is added to this formula, an abbreviation of: et amplius non proponatur (that is: let the question not be proposed again). The juridical effect of this clause is as follows: whereas, as a rule, if the interested party applies for it within ten days, the cardinal prefect may, after having heard the opinion of the congress, grant the beneficium novae audientiae, that is, a re-examination of the case by the Congregation, when the clause et a. is added to the decision, such a grant can be made only by the plenary Congregation (cf. Ordo servandus in Sacris Congregationibus, Tribunalibus, Officiis Romanae Curiae, of 29 Sept. 1908, part II, chap. 4, no. 10). Pio Ciprotti