Tort laws have been developed mostly from which of the following?

Statutes Acts of Parliament Common Law All of the above

Common Law

Torts are mostly a common law subject; it is common law in the sense that tort law or the rules of tort law developed not from a statute or an act passed by the Parliament, but from centuries of judicial decisions - case by case in English courts as well as in courts of other countries following common law system like India and the United States of America. In other words, for example, in India, both criminal law and contract law are based on statute laws like the Indian Penal Code and the Indian Contract Act respectively; however, there are no statutes that comprehensively deal with tort law as a separate area of law. A contract lawyer would look up the Contract Act to look for rules to be applicable in a given fact situation. A tort lawyer would look for rules as developed by courts in similar cases.