The 'caution' money (to pay funeral expenses in the event of death) had been paid.

The letters amount to a guarantee from a bank that the city will be paid in the event that the developer defaults.

Contingency cases typically involve risk, where the lawyer is only paid in the event of a successful outcome.

Do so only if you could afford to pay it in the event of a claim.

We pay the replacement cost as new, in the event of loss or damage beyond economical repair or total destruction.

As with the 19th man, the 20th man was only paid a match fee in the event that he took the field.

Some American passengers may be covered by travel insurance, which would pay in part for alternative transportation in the event of a strike.

He said the county would not use property-tax revenues to pay the officers' salaries, in the event of a shortfall from Albany.

Trip-cancellation insurance provided by a tour company will not pay in the event of the company's insolvency.

G.M. had agreed to pay those benefits in the event of bankruptcy.