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NO SUCH THING under 'black letter' [conventional and historical] contract law. Contracts require SPECIFICS -- something to be purchased at a specified price, for instance, and an agreement to sell that something at the specified price so agreed. There is no such idea as "intention" to make a contract being contractually binding in and of itself, for many reasons. It is just to amorphous [confusing, shapeless] to say "we agree to make a future agreement" -- the future is too unpredictable to make this a contract -- which must be in the 'here and now' to be valid. Same as in Talmudic [Jewish] law and Roman Dynastic law.

So the word 'Intention' to create being binging in itself is of the table -- you don't specify the relationship but it could make a difference. Just going to a lawyer, asking a question and leaving without paying can obligate that lawyer -- just answering a question can establish an attorney-client relationship and that lawyer could be liable for legal malpractice, for instance, even though he had no intention of representing the question seeker. Of course, if someone says "I Do" when asked to marry that does not establish a legal relationship in and of itself -- merely an intention expressed to actually get married later -- and breaking such promise is NOT actionable under United States law [other considerations in Jewish law though]. You would have to specify more the nature of the relationship intended [at least by one party!] for a more exacting answer.

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