Where do laws come from?

Definitions of crime and laws: Crime: The act of bracking the law.

Criminal law: the law dealing with crimes and their punishments.

Civil law: Civil law, as opposed to criminal law, refers to that branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals and/or organizations

where do laws come from : laws where first introduced in the 1890's, but it was only really tacken in to action in the early 1900's.