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The Genitives meī, tuī, nostrī, vestrī are used only as Objective Genitives; nostrum and vestrum as Genitives of the Whole.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

"There are some other Verbs found with these Genitives and Ablatives, which in their own Nature don't signify buying, or anything like it."

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

The Genitives meī, tuī, suī, nostrī, vestrī, when used in the Gerundive Construction, are regularly employed without reference to Gender or Number, since they were originally Neuter Singular Adjectives used substantively.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

So sometimes other Genitives; as,— meā ūnīus operā, by the assistance of me alone.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

And the so-called Genitives can themselves be inflected, as we have seen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various