In Storer v Manchester City Council (1974) CA Lord Denning explained: “In contracts you do not look into the actual intent in a man’s mind. You look at what he said and did. A contract is formed when there is, to all outward appearances, a contract. A man cannot get out of a contract by saying: ‘I did not intend to contract’, if by his words he has done so. His intention is to be found only in the outward expression which his [words and actions] convey. If they show a concluded contract that is enough.”