AMPLIUS. - The wording of the decisions of the Sacred Congregations (v. CONGREGAZIONI ROMANE, SACRE; CURIA ROMANA) is generally expressed in brief formulas: affirmative ("si"), negative ("no"), and similar ones, which refer to the questions previously formulated and reproduced in the decision itself.
Sometimes to this formula is added the clause et amplius, an abbreviation of: et amplius non proponatur (i.e., the question is not to be proposed again). The legal effect of this clause is as follows: whereas normally, if the interested party requests it within ten days, the Cardinal Prefect may, after hearing the opinion of the congress, grant the beneficium novae audientiae, that is, the reconsideration of the case by the Congregation; when, however, the decision is accompanied by the clause et a., such a concession can be made only by the Plenary Congregation (cf. Ordo servandus in Sacris Congregationibus, Tribunali bus, Officii Romanae Curiae, of Sept. 29, 1908, part II, chap. 4, n. 10).