reasoning of the laws

when i was talking to my lawyer, (who was a friend of my dad) he used a lot of word that made it sound like he knows what he was talking about. taking this class and a few things i have learned to helped me understand what he was saying, he started to explain what a crime was and what a tort was and a civil law.. he was surprised that i knew what those were. "It is a crime to embezzle money from an employer, to steal a car, and to sell cocaine."  "Criminal law concerns behavior so threatening that society outlaws it altogether." "Most criminal laws are statutes, passed by Congress or a state legislature." "Civil law is different, and most of this book is about civil law. Civil law regulates the rights and duties between parties."  he told me that these are important to what i am going in and how it will effect what i may do. my lawyer was really nice and helped me a lot to understand some of the things i will need to know to further my success in my field of work.