11.3. Run-Time Handling of an Exception
When an exception is thrown (§14.18), control is transferred from the code that caused the exception to the nearest dynamically enclosing catch clause, if any, of a try statement (§14.20) that can handle the exception.
A statement or expression is dynamically enclosed by a catch clause if it appears within the try block of the try statement of which the catch clause is a part, or if the caller of the statement or expression is dynamically enclosed by the catch clause.
The caller of a statement or expression depends on where it occurs:
• If within a method, then the caller is the method invocation expression (§15.12) that was executed to cause the method to be invoked.
• If within a constructor or an instance ...
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